MachineMachine /stream - tagged with city http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net New York - Empire of Evolution http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/science/26evolve.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the biological changes that cities bring to the wildlife that inhabits them. For these scientists, the New York metropolitan region is one great laboratory. White-footed mice, stranded on isolated urban islands, are evolving to adapt to urban stress. Fish in the Hudson have evolved to cope with poisons in the water. Native ants find refuge in the median strips on Broadway. And more familiar urban organisms, like bedbugs, rats and… ]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:55:44 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/science/26evolve.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all The Neolithic Age is over! http://032c.com/2011/the-neolithic-age-is-over/ Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the fifth century BC, and even the Neolithic age. For example, if there are no more peasants today, when did peasantry ­begin? In the Neolithic age. We can now say that in the year 2000, the Neolithic age is over. But who announced this in the news­papers? We didn’t read in any paper that “the Neolithic age is over”!

And we are equipped in our thinking for this… ]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:36:11 -0700 http://032c.com/2011/the-neolithic-age-is-over/ City Pulse un-gif-dans-ta-gueule: NYC - Time Lapse Source... http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7156959686

City Pulse

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NYC - Time Lapse

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]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:39:41 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7156959686 Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to http://www.slate.com/id/2245644 http://www.slate.com/id/2245644 ]]> Sun, 02 May 2010 14:28:00 -0700 http://www.slate.com/id/2245644 Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/frameworks-for-citizen-responsiveness-enhanced-toward-a-readwrite-urbanism/ Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems fairly straightforward is letting these resources report on their own status. Information about failures would propagate not merely to other objects on the network but reach you and me as well, in terms we can relate to, via the provisions we've made for issue-tracking.

And because our own human senses are still so much better at spotting emergent situations than their machinic counterparts, and will probably… ]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:35:00 -0700 http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/frameworks-for-citizen-responsiveness-enhanced-toward-a-readwrite-urbanism/ Divine Wilderness http://canopycanopycanopy.com/7/divine_wilderness PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the Tabernacle that housed Him in the desert, and then the Temple that was His residence in Jerusalem. The dimensions of these structures were dictated by a divine blueprint. The Temple gave birth to a city, and from it emerged a civilization. We are descendants of this tradition, irrespective of such trivialities as whether one identifies as a “believer.” ]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:02:00 -0700 http://canopycanopycanopy.com/7/divine_wilderness Abandoned Places In The World http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandoned-places-in-the-world/ When starting on this post for some reason I was thinking that there are not many abandoned places in the world, at least the cities. I knew there are many villages, farms and just lonely houses all around the world but when thousands of people leave, leaving the whole city dead that’s a real tragedy. There are mainly two reasons why people suddenly or little by little leave the place where they used to live for years or even generations: that’s the danger and economic factors. The biggest number of abandoned villages and farms can be found in Unites States… ]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:05:00 -0700 http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandoned-places-in-the-world/ Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/07/desire-paths-reading-memory-and-inscription.html

by Daniel Rourke

This article is an edifice, a mockery of the freedom needed to create it. It is rigid, it is linear. Its sentences end only to lead onwards to the next, pulling the reader's eye through a series of limited, and limiting pathways. And yet, reading does not have to be this way. In the process of writing this article little time was spent laying out the path of words you now follow to their conclusion. The process of writing is non-linear, perhaps more like a network of ideas spanning out from nodes…

]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:35:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/07/desire-paths-reading-memory-and-inscription.html In Another city another me is writing http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2008/12/in_another_city_another_me_is_writing.html Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an artefact with intention behind it. A series of artefacts in fact, positioned by my mind and placed within a certain context (i.e. 3QD: a fascinating and widely read blog). As a collection, as an article, its intention is easy to distinguish. I wanted to say something, so I wrote an article, which I hoped would be… ]]> Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:52:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2008/12/in_another_city_another_me_is_writing.html