what I am secretly trying to get at visualizing is a view of cities as space stations in some conceptual interstellar space, where the more dense+technological they are, the further away they are
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Replying to @vgr @nils_gilman
dense/technological on what metric? Further they are away from each other or dispersed from their Central core?
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I shoulda threaded my thoughts on this... I have a bunch of scattered thoughts on my TL from last night.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1173405248641069056 …
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Replying to @vgr @nils_gilman
hmm I would look at "global cities metrics" (dumbed down from Soja's theorizing) because they try to incorporate this stuff, otherwise you may need to see who has summarized satellite land-use / land cover data (search phrase: NVLD) and/or combined it with industrial zoning.
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Replying to @azadag @nils_gilman
That would be of interest to quants, but metrics-based legibilization of techno-urbanism always hits a wall. For me, the metrics are just a means to a sort of narrative/qualitative end: getting a more poetic rather than wonky/quant sense of what "urbanization" means. A portrait.
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Really what urbanism needs is the kind of thing Wolfram called a computational essay. Somewhere between the narrative poetry of say Caro's book on Moses and the endless slicing and dicing with metrics. A right-brained way to grok the nature of the beast.
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Replying to @vgr @nils_gilman
lol do you want some links, lots of links, or even more links? It's been done and redone over 50 years and it also doesn't help you end-run politics or any of the wicked problems in planning and urban issues.
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Replying to @azadag @nils_gilman
Oh that doesn't interest me at all. I'm not trying to actually solve any problems. Besides perhaps making up interesting views of cities for some of my science fiction experiments.
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Replying to @vgr @nils_gilman
hmm try some of these https://www.fastcompany.com/90245781/a-gorgeous-visualization-of-commutes-around-the-world … http://bigbytes.mobyus.com/commute.aspx
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That's the sort of thing I find interesting. Something that gets at the organic+artificial anatomy of a city, in the context of more than its spatial context. Spatio-economic context perhaps. And evolving in time. Almost a game-of-life type thing.
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Replying to @vgr @nils_gilman
Look at Michael batty's work / research group at UCL. Citylab has a maps newsletter that you can delve through. 'urban form' another keyword.
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