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Hearing UrbanInfrastructure

Shannon MatternThe New Schoolwordsinspace.net


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Halifax, CanadaThis modest indentation on theCanadian coastline is a majorInternet landmark, a sort of Ellis

Island of the Web: Its where asubmarine cable owned byHibernia Atlantic comes ashore.(Eleven major lines cross theAtlantic, and this one landsunder the manhole, above left.)This particular bit started at aHibernia sister station inSouthport, England, andtraversed the ocean in about0.0028 second. It will then skipalong one of two fiber-opticthoroughfares: the cross-

Canada pipe, which goes toMontreal and points west, or thesouthern route, down the EastCoast, through Boston to NewYork City.

Via Blum, Netscapes, Wired:

http://bit.ly/8ZmQIl


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via InfraNet Lab:http://bit.ly/h36Gdy


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via leonelponce on Flickr: http://bit.ly/ndktH6


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Jeffrey MacMillan forThe Washington Post


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http://vimeo.com/20412632
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MEDIA CITYSalford, UK

Dubai

Seoul


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William Henry Fox Talbot:West Front, York Minster,

from Lendal Street, ca. 1845

Berenice Abbott:Newsstand, 32nd Street and ThirdAvenue, Manhattan, 1935


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Charles Marville, Rue Basse-des-Ursins, le de la Cit, 1865;The Piercing of the Avenue de lOpra, 1865


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Charles Marville, Rue de Rivoli, 1877


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Adolf Loos, Villa Mller, Prague, 1930


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S. Eisenstein, Montage andArchitecture, 1938


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Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Las Vegas Studio, 1968


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Inception, 2010


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Levittown, PA


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has been underway at least since the

development of technological images in thecontext of urban modernization in the mid-19thcentury (Scott McQuire, The Media City, 2008, p. vii)

from the hand-held camera at the endof the 19th century to the mobile phone at

the end of the 20th, the city has alwaysbeen a mediated construct(Eric Gordon, TheUrban Spectator, 2010, p. 2)


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Serlio, Primo Libro, 1551; Paju Book City, South Korea, under construction


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Via LNL
http://www.lnl.com/esbantennas.htmhttp://www.lnl.com/esbantennas.htm


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Richard Pare, View of the Shabolovka Radio Tower,Moscow, Russia, 2000CCA Collection


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Dhaka


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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929Willis Polk, Hallidie Building, 1917-18


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http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2011/05/17/history-of-networks/?view=socialstudieshttp://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2011/05/17/history-of-networks/?view=socialstudies


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Testing the ringing rocks

@ Stonehenge:http://bit.ly/60wxa8


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View of the Acropolis from the Pnyxvia WallyG on Flickr: http://bit.ly/Lcb8Fd


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Via http://tallinnsoundmap.wordpress.com/


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Mechanics Hall, Boston


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Avery Fisher, via Fortune, 1946


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Via LaMetropole: http://bit.ly/L7QYef


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Via http://bit.ly/ArwWxc
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/oct/04/pirate-radio-vice-video


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Pirate radio: transmitter, microwave link, antennae,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/oct/04/pirate-radio-vice-video


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transmission and studio sites; records, record shops,studios, dub plates; turntables, mixers, amplifiers,headphones; microphones; mobile phones, SMS,voice; reception technologies, reception locations, DJtapes; drugs; clubs, parties; flyers, stickers, posters

[A]s all the various elements organize in combination

within the sound, across the city, through a jumble ofavailable media, there is also a sense in which thepolyphony traversing the signal echoes a wider senseof connective disjuncture as a crucial term ofcomposition The media ecology is synthesized by

the broke-up combination of parts

Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies


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