Some provocative, fertile figures for public space here. (Sloterdijk would insist they're precisely not "metaphors.")

A little misleading as regards the Japanese technological landscape, but still important.

Important work being done here by OK Do and Sitra. I'm proud to see so many of our recommendations reflected in the final report.

The truly terrifying aspect of Fabien Brunsing's piece illustrating differential permissioning and the monetization of public space...is that you can bet someone somewhere's going to take it as a best practice.

A gimmick, at best tangentially related to the content. But also a harbinger.

Mr. Slavin and I spent almost a whole class on this likelihood two years ago.

Great resource for the legendary map.

On the one hand: OMGWTF. On the other: Entirely predictable, and — I might add, with some justice — that in fact I called this one from twenty miles off. Via Tom Carden.

A heroic transcription of the talk I gave in Brighton last year. While revealing all my tics and weaknesses as a speaker, it's nonetheless not a bad effort.

Via middlespaces.net.

Carol Ann Duffy's meditation on the Great British Pub. See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQLrx8Mmsrs
(PS Duffy worked on "Ambit" at the same time as our young Jim.)

Ostensibly, a "twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. Filmic urban public space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, as well as the many passages through the project, make the Linked Hybrid an 'open city within a city.'"

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

How about a cool, delicious Smirnoff Ice™, John Anderton?

Liz's LIFT Marseilles '09 deck. (OMG can I just say I hate hate hate Slideshare.)

The city is here for you to use. Photo by Damon Winter.

"Mobile Porch is a mobile mini-architecture designed for roaming the public sphere." (!)

I'm not always a fan of traffic calming, but this feels like several steps in the right direction to me.

A point Kevin and I used to make constantly in class: new technologies undercut the logic of social performativity so crucial to the public consumption of media. In other words, c. 1988, carrying around a Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents book used to be able to get you laid (true!), but reading the same text(e) on an iPhone is rather less likely to lead to the same outcome.

"Someday you'll be OK with it." Well, maybe not. But the generation after? Sure, why not. They'll have fundamentally different conceptions of privacy and - most likely - civil liberties.

Guerrilla public-space interventions. Saw one of these on Riverpath during my run - *love* it.

Randy does a great job here. I'd *love* to see this updated to reflect emergent modes...and vertical transport as well.

The next step after scale-free generative architecture is the design of generic urban modules.

Unbelievably lovely & restorative Foster + Partners public space. A million thanks to Shanthi.

Dates to 1999. Prescient, mostly sadly so.