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Category Archives: Urbanism
City of the Singularity part 3: Hello, Bomb?
The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged us into scenes that feel like science fiction films. Downtown streets are eerily deserted, shop staff look at us through shiny face visors, we watch vehicles spraying disinfectant across cities on the other side of … Continue reading
Posted in artificial intelligence, Life, Uncategorized, Urbanism
Tagged automation, robots, singularity, superintelligence
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City of the Singularity, part 2: Missions Too Important to Jeopardise
A city run by a superintelligent system would be shaped by the mission the machine intelligence sets for itself. What mission would be best for its citizens? Continue reading
Posted in Design, Life, Urbanism
Tagged city, future, future city, singularity, smart city, superintelligence, The Society of the Spectacle, urban forest, Urbanism, utopia
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The City of the Singularity Part 1: You See Us
What if machine intelligence was in complete control of the city and its citizens? Continue reading
A spotlight on Shenzhen’s Urban Villages… and the future of cities
Shenzhen seems to be the ultra-modern super-scaled metropolis, but it also presents a very different urbanist model, one hidden in its urban villages. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Urbanism, World Cities
Tagged Gentrification, Hubei, Meng Yan, Nanshen, Nantou, Nantou Walled City, Shenzhen, UABB, unplanned, Urban Village, urbansiation, Urbanus
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California at London’s Design Museum
“Californian design has cruised a freeway to the future, but at some multi-level interchange, it may have left the road marked freedom” Continue reading
Posted in California, Design, Life, Urbanism
Tagged Apple, California, Captain America Chopper, Design, Design Museum, Emory Douglas, exhibition, freeways, Google, Los Angeles, Ridley Scott
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Letter from Tokyo
The most advanced city on Earth isn’t just shaped by earthquakes and economics – animes and architects play out dreams there too. Herbert Wright seeks the big picture from above, and the future beyond the futuristic Two things not to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Urbanism, World Cities
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