Archive for May, 2008
Socially Engineering the City of Masdar
A couple weeks ago Edwin Gardner, of prss release and Volume Magazine, asked me to expand upon my post on Masdar for the forthcoming issue of Volume on social engineering. In response, my article set out to contemplate the role of Masdar in a new wave of designer cities.
[Image: Volume #15: Destination Library. Courtesy [...]
Pattern Recognition 2
This week’s batch of patterns is fairly diverse. There is a range of scales, as well as subjects. Enjoy.
Crosswalk Culture
As virtual bridges crossing the overwhelming number of black rivers, crosswalks may someday be an anthropological resource. Within the accompanying urban signage exists a multitude of behavioral indicators.
[Image: The crosswalk in the famous album cover for the Beatles Abbey Road. Courtesy of The Beatles MMT.]
This morning, witnessing suicidal pedestrians, I was reminded of [...]


