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the future of Seattle
I recently appeared as a panelist at the University of Washington on the Future of Seattle. Here are my talking points on the City and the Region – mostly oriented to environment, innovation and planning.
It’s the Seattle/Puget Region, not Simply the City
When we talk about Seattle, the City, proper, usually gets the attention. In fact [...]
making the cloud of environmental data visible for the Puget region
Seattle is the center of cloud computing. What if we could literally see a little piece of that metaphorical cloud; a part that monitors and describes what’s happening in our local environment? It could help us better understand and manage our region. To this end I’ve conceived a proposed art/science/geography installation called “Transect.”
The premise for [...]
wazzup with houellebecq; the map and the territory
I’ve just finished Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory. There’s also a piece in this week’s New Yorker about him and his new book, Submission, which imagines France with an elected Islamist President and has been widely lauded as prescient, given recent events.
But, back to The Map…it is not an elegantly written book. Nominally [...]
geography informing politics; a project retrospective in the mediterranean
I have recently revisited a project completed more than 20 years ago; a Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis of the Mediterranean Basin conducted as a consultant for the World Bank. In the early 90’s the Bank was intrigued to see if geographic information could help inform a region – wide environmental [...]
A few observations prompted by Philae and space ventures in general
Until recently the concept of “space” has seemed stuck in time to me, if not relegated to the past. The space station is a relic of the the 80’s/90’s and with no Shuttle, now served by Russian rockets built in the 70’s, even more of a nostalgic 20th Century endeavor. I’ve also viewed space tourism [...]