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Living with the Smart City; and Making Construction Smarter
Have you noticed how the Smart City seems to have appropriated much of what used to be called urban planning? Virtually every city physical function is now a test bed for data driven approaches, often augmented with sensors and controls. All this is mediated by code. This situation squares with Marc Andreessen’s assertion that “software [...]
urban design implications of the smart city – and the cloud
For any given location in a large city in the developed word there are dozens of data points and feeds in the cloud. Some of these information streams fall under the category of Smart City initiatives: street lights reporting themselves in need of replacement, traffic and weather, parking spaces and EV charging stations available, buses [...]
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 [...]