January 2012
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Visualizing the Costs of Incarceration in the US
“It cost 17 million dollars to imprison 109 People from these 17 blocks in 2003. We call these million dollar blocks. On a financial scale prisons are becoming the predominant governing institution in the neighborhood.”
Laura Kurgan and Sarah Williams in Metropolis, Jan. 2012
From Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab: Million Dollar Blocks
“The...
A Review of several theoretical bases for Smart...
reblogggged from Nicolas Nova, Pasta & Vinegar: Theoretical bases for Smart Cities:
A theory of smart cities” by Colin Harrison and Ian Abbott Donnelly offers an overview of the different theoretical bases for the “Smart Cities” trope. As the author mentions, “the current ad hoc approaches of Smart Cities to the improvement of cities are reminiscent of pre-scientific medicine. They may do...
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Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an... →
hautepop:
“Within the next few years an important threshold will be crossed: For the first time ever, it will become technologically and financially feasible for authoritarian governments to record nearly everything that is said or done within their borders—every phone conversation, electronic message, social media interaction, the movements of nearly every person and vehicle, and video from...
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“The problem of course is that the “power” of big data to help answer challenging...”
– Massive, crucial point, beautifully expressed - and by an undergrad no less (by name of Evan Freedman).
Comment on The Limits of Big Data by Klint Finley on RWW, June 2011
(via hautepop)
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“You know what I’d really like to see interaction design wrestle with? I would...”
– Towards a Newer Urbanism: Talking Cities, Networks, and Publics with Adam Greenfield | UgoTrade
Adam, this is why interaction designers need to work with sociologists! All we sociologists do is examine the self in everyday life and people’s needs/wants.
Adam Greenfield's reflections on Everyware
I love Adam Greenfield’s reflections on his first book Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. Adam wrote Everyware in 2006, and this interview, Towards a Newer Urbanism: Talking Cities, Networks, and Publics with Adam Greenfield, with Tish Shute was conducted in 2009.
“So, first, I think it’s important to cop to all the places in Everyware where I just outright got...