Geoff Manaugh

@geoffmanaugh

Writer | Cities, crime, design, science, fiction, landscape, futures | Author of -bestseller,

Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2008.

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    My first feature for the is up, about a New York State high school teacher in the 1990s named Fred Isseks, who inspired his students to form an investigative documentary unit, uncovering illegal Mafia dumping of toxic waste in local landfills.

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    Very happy to see the story of Fred Isseks—a New York State high school English teacher who, in the 1990s, inspired his teenage students to confront local politicians and the Mob over illegal toxic-waste dumping—finding a receptive audience.

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    The lock-down of Wenzhou is a major development, not "just another city": Wenzhou is generally considered the cradle of China's commodity economy and is very important for global light manufacturing

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    “‘Music for Phone Booths’ is a multi-channel audio installation and recorded album intended... for playback inside five vintage abandoned phone booths located underground” in Chicago. Cool project by .

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    A wonderful read about what teenagers are capable of when challenged and empowered. My kids are a bit young still, but it definitely leaves me thinking about how to create similar opportunities for them.

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    The whole story is wild, including at least one student death threat, one landfill owner disappearing into the Federal Witness Protection Program, a police logbook stolen under dubious circumstances, even a meeting with President Clinton. Check it out:

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    At one point, Isseks and his students helped to confirm rumors of a “hidden landfill... somewhere in the woods beyond the sixth fairway of a local publicly owned golf course,” uncovering chemical drums, waste oil, pesticides. Here is reporting from the time, by .

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    In retirement, Fred Isseks started his own blog about the subject. This long post—specifically putting the Orange County Landfill into a cultural and geological context—is a superb example of local history for activist ends.

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    Strangely, that piece came out of this old BLDGBLOG post, about “terrestrial warfare” between dam builders and dam destroyers in New York State. My friend, Ed Keller, lives in the region and gave me a heads up about Fred Isseks—thanks, Ed!

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    Among the unsettling details I found while writing this was a driver who bragged that he could open his valves in the rain and drain toxic waste directly onto the freeway: “the only way I can get caught is if the windshield wipers or the tires of the car behind me start melting.”

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    30 years ago my high school teacher Fred Isseks put a camera in my hands and changed the course of my life.

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    Teenagers are weird, methodical, and relentless in their chosen pursuits. Really inspiring story of using that energy on an impactful project. should train high school media labs in open source investigations.

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    In 1792, Lequeu envisioned a tomb for the Etruscan king Lars Porsena built over an inescapable labyrinth (& included a compendium of famous historic labyrinths for ideas)

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    Jean-Jacques Lequeu’s drawings now are packed with details on how his fantastic architecture would actually work, such as this 1804-11 temple for initiation into a secret society

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    Something to potentially watch: Cosmos 2542, a Russian inspection satellite, has recently synchronized its orbit with USA 245, an NRO KH11. A thread:

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    This is interesting — What if each seat at major sporting events [or concerts, etc] came with free bus, train, & subway tickets? It’s called “transit validation,” and it can reduce traffic, pollution, & public costs. Via ⁦

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  17. 31. sij

    Imperial familiars, or the rise of an animal-surveillance complex: “Birds carrying radar sensors have been used to spy on fishing boats... strapping sensors to 169 albatrosses and releasing them in the south of the Indian Ocean.”

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  18. 31. sij

    See also, geographers “actively engaging with the volumetric.” “Geopolitical forays into vertical spaces such as the atmosphere or the subterranean have proven extremely challenging to represent, cartographically or mentally.”

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    New book looks at “sovereign space as volume rather than area.” “From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil.”

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    19th-century photos of dolmens taken by Eugène Trutat, related to an exhibition by architect Anna Neimark, opening tomorrow night—January 31, 7pm—at .

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