Getting a younger cohort invested in urban planning through cycling (!). Fully awesome & worthy of support.

God, this all smells so depressingly familiar. A refreshingly skeptical - almost arch - tone in this business reporting from the Times, which refuses to take Stringer's bromides at face value.

"These...logics and relationships...resist conventional forms of representation[,] and to operate within them requires the development of tools of analysis and design that account for the multiplicities of scale and complex logics that are found within the contemporary city."

SO bummed I missed this.

More on the "Semco Way." Seems like just a little more than the usual business wankery.

Nicolas is right in that this *is* a very important point, but it's certainly been made by a great many people. Vernor Vinge did a really good job underlining this, actually, in the otherwise not-great "Rainbow's End."

Whoah there, hoss: "We consider furniture not in terms of isolated objects but as a pre-eminent space-making substance. Our design efforts need to encompass the domains of interior design, furniture design, and even product design...Our handling of interior furnishings as dynamic swarm formations, or sometimes as a continuous surface/fluid mass, is geared towards the detailed elaboration of the continuously differentiated fields described above." (Via teh Varnelis.)

I've often suspected there has to be some mechanism like this at work in Universe, but have never been able to articulate my supposition in any meaningful way.

"A conference and exhibition examining the current role of software and generative strategies in art and design."

This is important and, I believe, true - but happily, very far from irreversible.

Complete download of Bill Hillier's odd-ass (excuse me: "idiosyncratic") approach to developing an urban pattern language. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_syntax for more.

GM's Volt, the "Barack Obama of cars."

The brilliance. Sadly, so so clear to see how it could be used for Eevil.

Some interesting tactical/logistical insight here.

Dan Lockton in a subtle but wise shift.

I'd agree on some points, not on others. A little dated, but not bad.

Via migurski, John shows us how incredibly *easy* it can be to create amenity space.

OMFG

I think "economic geography" when I see this, and also, curiously, Deleuze - a topologizing of latent desire

Lots of interesting points about downstream consequences of unconscious decisions at the level of architecture, the neotenous society, and so forth. Bottom line: the last few decades of my life don't look as if they will be much fun at all.

What I missed