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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 ArticleThe Dangers of Diffusion
I've previously written about the dangers facing cities in the upcoming economic collapse. Even as some "urbanists" are naïvely predicting that city cores will only strengthen during the coming decade...
View ArticleOn Fetishism and the City
After years of hearing that Marxism has nothing to say about the economy, even that bastion of new economy neoliberalism, Fast Company, is turning to Marxism to make some sense of the mess. In "David...
View ArticleBlueprints for a Better 'Burb
The collaborative entry between the Network Architecture Lab and Park for the Build a Better Burb competition is featured in the New York Times today in an article by Alison Arieff titled "Blueprints...
View ArticleAerotropolis, The Way Most of Us Won't Live
Time to bring aerotropolis down to earth. The publication of a new book, Aerotropolis by journalist Greg Lindsay and academic John Karsada has prompted a flurry of chatter this weekend. Go read an...
View ArticleThe Return of Galt's Gulch, or Enclave Urbanism
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about exurban communities for the ultra-rich that have thrived even as the rest of the real estate market has collapsed. Over at the Wall Street Journal, Nancy...
View ArticleOn August Disasters
When the collective wisdom is unquestioned, it is a good sign that it is wrong. Take the collapse of the housing crisis, for example, which caught a generation of architects, businesspeople,...
View ArticleDriving in the Smart City
I recently had the opportunity to speak in a session on "Driving in the Smart City" at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona. Below is a recording of an expanded version of the talk that I gave.As I said in...
View ArticleInfrastructural Fields
One of my favorite journals, Quaderns has posted an essay that I wrote for them a year ago, entitled "Infrastructural Fields." There, I make the argument that architects need to embrace the new,...
View ArticleOn Escape
I promised I'd blog more about our project for the Uneven Growth show, but it took longer than I expected to get around to it. In the meantime, I've refreshed the Web site a little, cleaning up a few...
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