Vaguery + as-if-better-decisions-had-been-made   2

Space and Culture : “The city that never was but could have been…”
"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
'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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