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

Hatherly magisterially takes parametricism as practiced/trumpeted by ZHA to pieces, in a zillion words...yet stops weirdly short of making the final (and, I would argue, obvious) connection between it and neoliberal practices like e.g. HFT.

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.)

Hot diggity. Martijn's argument closely parallels mine in two or three important places.

Yes/yes/yes.

"The true object of police is Man."

Compare to http://thanksgivingisruined.blogspot.com/2006/12/gimme-gimme-chaos-art-is-reinforcement.html

The original source of the "Observe, orient, decide, act" (OODA) loop, and a whole lot mo' besides

J. Burnham, 1968

Via Bill

RAND's, um, insights

The city is, apparently, here for you to use.

Another thesis-based structure