Four Bits on Oversaturation
Some recent links on oversaturation: tourist attractions that we are literally destroying with our love (how did they forget Venice?), how nobody goes to Barcelona anymore because it's too popular,...
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2020 in Review
Grayness on Mount Desert Island, 2020. According to conventional chronological schemas, 2020—not 2019—is the last year of the 2010s.* This is convenient since, as I pointed out in last year’s premature...
View ArticleQuartzsite in Cabinet
The spring issue of Cabinet Magazine is out, featuring a project that Robert Sumrell and I did on Quartzsite, Arizona at our two-man collaborative AUDC. The spring issue of Cabinet Magazine is out,...
View ArticleCLUI and Its Friends
Critical Spatial Practice put together an impressive list of the various individuals (including yours truly and AUDC that move in and around the Center for Land Use Interpretation. I’d love to see a...
View Articleurban konsumterror
Two years ago AUDC put together a project on Urban Konsumterror for our friend Paulette Singley’s book Eating Architecture. Things Magazine picked it up earlier this month, then Anne Galloway blogged...
View ArticleNetworked Publics Book Draft On-Line
As a culmination to the Networked Publics program, the faculty research group that I have been working at for the last year, we will be publishing a collaboratively written group book with the MIT...
View ArticleNetwork Architecture Lab Established
Why has this blog been so barren lately? Am I giving up on the Net? No! Far from it. I have, however, been a little busy lately. Now that the project is safely established, we can announce that… AUDC...
View Articlethe rise of the toy hauler
I’ve long predicted that RVs would become popular with the young. Finally it appears that I’m right. Today’s LA Times addresses the growth of RVs among members of Generation X. But Gen X isn’t merely...
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taiwanese pod city from hell
Looking something like a Roger Dean album cover, somewhere off the northern coast of Taiwain a pod city lies in ruin. Supposedly construction accidents at San Zhi generated fears that the site was...
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On Hipster Urbanism
Over at Fantastic Journal, Charles Holland writes about hipster urbanism, comparing the High Line, which turns infrastructure into tourism with the reopening of a train line in east London as…get this:...
View ArticleFour Bits on Oversaturation
Some recent links on oversaturation: tourist attractions that we are literally destroying with our love (how did they forget Venice?), how nobody goes to Barcelona anymore because it's too popular,...
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