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Space and Culture : “The city that never was but could have been…”
october 2009 by Vaguery
"The NY Times reports that architects Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder “have created a virtual map to guide users around Manhattan to sites where projects they describe as ‘visionary’ were planned but never built. The map is available as an interactive iPhone application…that uses GPS technology to detect when a user is near any of the roughly 50 notable sites, triggering a feature that allows the user to learn about the proposal through the architect’s foiled designs and words. ‘It’s a wall-less museum where the art isn’t even there,’ Mr. Snyder said. ‘The juxtaposition of what could be against what is’.”"
architecture
planning
futurism
iPgibw
projects
innovation
nanohistory
as-if-better-decisions-had-been-made
october 2009 by Vaguery
Guernica / Food Among the Ruins
august 2009 by Vaguery
'I asked her whether the city government would support large-scale urban agriculture. “City government is irrelevant,” she answered. “Positive change, leaps forward in the evolution of humankind do not start with governments. They start right here in our living rooms and kitchens. We are the leaders we are looking for.”'
disintermediation-in-action
economics
government
government2.0
gardening
geography
detroit
urban
reclamation
urban-planning
as-if-better-decisions-had-been-made
august 2009 by Vaguery
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