producing cities for the common good
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Producing Cities for the
Common Good
The Digital Image of the City Digital& Computational Studies Initiative
Bowdoin College Jack Gieseking
As usual in New York, everything is torn down Before you have had time to care for it. Head bowed, at the shrine of noise, let me try to recall What building stood here. Was there a building at all? Wait. Yes. Vaguely a presence rises… With the result that back into my imagination The city glides, like cities seen from the air, …the dull need to make some kind of house Out of the life lived, out of the love spent. ! - James Merrill’s “An Urban Convalescence” (2008)
Space is produced. !
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Made. Created. Crafted. Designed. Engineered. Touched. Shaped. Rejiggered. Altered. Claimed.
Occupied. Territorialized. Defined. &c., &c., &c.
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Is the smart city different? How?
Hayden
Hayden’s The Power of
Place
Chinese railroad workers for Union Pacific. LA Public Library 1876.
Hayden’s The Power of
Place
LA 1950s. USC Bass Collection
Hayden’s The Power of
Place
East Harlem 1989 / Hayden’s example of “counterspace.” Martha Cooper 1989.
Space is produced. !
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But by whom? For whom?
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It is now even more clear.
Townsend
Townsend on Smart
Cities
Townsend on Smart
Cities
Variations on a City for the Common Good
M.I.T. Senseable City Lab 2014
Where the 13,586
registered taxis in 2011 made
170 million pickups and
dropoffs in New York City. Yellow dots are pickups
and blue dots are dropoffs.
!- Chang and Kirsch, “If 2 New Yorkers Shared a Cab …" NYTimes 9/1/14
Hayden’s The Power of
Place
Little Tokyo Sidewalk Project LA, 1990s. Hayden & UCLA Architecture students.
Readings for Friday FIELD TRIP: Debord, Bauman
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Assignment: Blog Post #1 due Friday, Sept. 12th
(due day before field trip 5pm) !!
Reading for Monday, Sept. 15th: Lynch
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