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IEEE on Megacities
Thanks to Nicolas Nova for a link to the IEEE Spectrum's special issue on Megacities, a quick introduction to how engineers look at cities as complex systems.
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While at the bookstore yesterday, I spied a new edition of science historian's James Burke's classic book, Connections. This book, and the accompanying ten episode television series of the same name,...
View Articleone wilshire sold
Many of my friends have written today to point out that LA Times reports that the Carlyle Group has sold the One Wilshire Building to the Hines Real Estate Investment Trust. Many thanks for the link,...
View Articlehardt on the multitude, the metropolis, networks, and training
Michael Hardt spoke at Columbia yesterday. His goal, in speaking to a crowd of architects and urban planners, was to suggest the hypothesis that if the factory was the place of industrial production,...
View Articlethe techno-utility complex or, the end of the distributed
I'm en route to Vilnius for the weekend and then to Limerick for final reviews but I thought I'd still manage to get a blog entry in. It's a recurring theme of mine that the notion that the Internet is...
View Articleclustering silicon valley
I'm back from a trip to see my parents in Vilnius where I had the opportunity to visit a great new project by Valdas Ozarinskas, one of the most interesting conceptual architects working today at the...
View Articlethe undersea net
I'm in Clemson getting ready to give a talk today that—with some luck—I'll be able to put up as a podcast next week. In the meantime, this week's disruption of Internet service in the Middle East (and...
View Articlemore trouble with cables
Today's post is an uncomfortable follow up to last week's entry on "the undersea net" and the problems that ensued when a cable was cut in the Mideast. It turns out that more cables have gone offline....
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the infrastructural city
The Infrastructural City has been published and is now on its way from Spain to the United States. Those of you in the EU may already be able to get it from ACTAR. Other readers can preoder their...
View ArticleThe Wrong Way Forward
Over at Triple Canopy, I expand on the themes that I covered with Joseph Tainter in the interview I posted earlier here, this time as the interviewee.
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