Le Corbusier: Plan Voisin in Paris. “Since 1922 (for the past 42 years) I have continued to work, in general and in detail, on the problem of Paris. Everything has been made public. The City Council has never contacted me. It calls me ‘Barbarian’!” (Le Corbusier’s writings, p. 207) Source: NYU
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“Project Cybersyn is an early computer network developed in Chile during the socialist presidency of Salvador Allende (1970–1973) to regulate the growing social property area and manage the transition of Chile’s economy from capitalism to socialism. Under the guidance of British cybernetician Stafford Beer, often lauded as the ‘father of management cybernetics’, an interdisciplinary Chilean [...]
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Physicist and former Sante Fe Institute president Geoffrey West practically stole the show with his talk on urban metabolisms. Cities are like organisms, he explained, except they grow much faster and much bigger than anything living – in fact, there appears to be no upper limit to their size or propensity for innovation… or disaster. [...]
When I was little I obsessed over the article about the Statue of Liberty in the 1960 World Book Encyclopedia that my parents kept on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf. It was this picture in particular that I stared at the most. I’m much more interested in the beginnings of things than of the [...]
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Saint ‘Eilia: One of the great Futurists of the early 20th century who handed in his dinner pail during the First World War. His greatest claim to fame was the choice that he gave to residents of the city of the future. You could either live in a giant pipe organ, or something that is [...]
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This vision of a future London comes to us courtesy of the Grey’s Cigarette Company. It’s pretty impressive for an advert. You’ve got your giant skyscrapers, city-spanning domes, sky bridges, and even advertising with phonetic spelling. And note the transportation system with all manner of monorails and trams. Sure, going north or south is a [...]
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In 1970, Renato Severino said that future spaces needed flexibility, continuity and articulation, and digital spaces are just that. They are flexible in meaning, continuously carrying inhabitants/users from one region to another, and articulate themselves trough others and their environments. The digital space is a space of modular coordination. This type of space has been [...]
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