Several links about technology and urbanism:
- Joshua Noble and I hammered out a text on interaction, cities and space earlier in the year and we've posted the fruits of our labour at Vague Terrain. The short essay sketches out a typology of approaches to 'softening' the city and touches on related work by Usman Haque, Michelle Teran and Woods Bagot (pictured above is a rendering of their Icbergs NYC), amongst others.
- Interview fever – smart people interviewing other smart people: Jeff Watson chats with Mark Shepard at Remote Device and Nicholas Nova discusses 'smart cities' with Saskia Sassen for Lift Lab.
- Christian Marc Schmidt considers cognitive mapping, figure ground drawings, Aldo Rossi and Stamen's Map=Yes in a thoughtful post that reveals some of the influences behind his recent work. Schmidt: "The real potential of the combined framework that Stamen and MapQuest have created is the capability of generating personalized maps, displaying places with personal significance. What would it mean if, instead of resorting to generic, ?swiss army knife? maps, we could explore and navigate our environments through personalized maps?"
- On the homefront, tech/culture thinker Nav Alang wonders out loud if Toronto is 'technophobic' in a great piece for the Toronto Standard
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