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2012.10.12 InfoCamp
What cities teach us
about the future
of the internet?
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Forum One Communications
http://www.forumone.com
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web enthusiasts
More than 1,500 projects for
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Web Strategy
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Teaching
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Web Dev
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Urban Design
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architecture and limits
preamble
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In architecture, productions of
the limit are not only historically
frequent, but indispensable:
architecture simply does not
exist without them.
- Bernard Tschumi
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Blade Runner / Ridley Scott
architectural space
chapter 1
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flickr.com/brokinhrt2
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Chartre Cathedral
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NASDAQ / Video Wall
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Seattle Public Library / OMA
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Expo 2008, Zaragoza / Atelier Brckner, Stuttgart/DE
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Galleria / Arup Lighting / UN Studio
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City lights / NASA
http://www.opte.org/maps/
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collapsed physical/virtual
chapter 2
ALBERT VECERKA/ESTO) IAC Video Wall
340 million tweets daily
Facebook: 1 Billion Users
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virtual space
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googles
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Second Life
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what cities teach us
chapter 2
2006
50% of world population
live in cities
1 billion
Live in
informal settlements
20-15
million/year
Move to cities in China
400
million
Needing new housing in China
in next 15 years
70%
CO
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produced
by cities
More than 50% of the Worlds population live in
cities. Why?
Economy mobility
Opportunity
Security
Excitement
More than 50% of the Worlds population live in
cities. Why?
Economy mobility
Opportunity
Security
Excitement
= Hope
Issues of Scale
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Elements comprising the city
Socio-Economics (population, industry, agriculture,
density, poverty, equity etc, etc)
Infrastructure (roads, transportation, water supply, waste
treatment, drainage, electricity, green space etc)
Housing & settlement
Urban management (master planning, cultural & heritage,
environment, disaster, etc.)
Regulation (zoning, urban design guidelines, etc.)
Administration / Politics
Events (Olympics, Expo...)
4.1km x 830m = 3.4km
2
Seattle 370 km
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Seattle 370 km
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Seoul 600 km
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Seattle 370 km
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Gangnam
40 km
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Central Park
3.4 km
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Scale determines the type of relationship
Building
Neighborhood
Village/Town
Region
Country
Continent
World
National
National policy
Regional (1:10,000 - 25,000)
Population distribution and density
General (1:5,000)
Road network, infrastructure, Green space
Detailed (1:500 - 2,000)
Urban design / architectural design
h"p://www.ickr.com/photos/jodigreen
h"p://hai7.ushahidi.com/
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How do we comprehend
the vastness of scale of
connectedness and
intimacy of space?
Infrastructure
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Ansel Adams | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
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Stanley Greenberg | City Tunnel No. 3, Queens, New York, 1997
http://urbanomnibus.net/2010/11/stanley-greenberg-city-as-organism-only-some-of-it-visible/
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Now really everyone
can start to rely on
us as infrastructure.
- Mark Zuckerberg
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-04/facebooks-next-billion-a-q-and-a-with-mark-zuckerberg
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What is the infrastructure we
are creating for ensure
future prosperity?
Placeness
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73 London | Nick Rossino (Flickr) |
http://www.ickr.com/photos/27447826@N06/2557253681/
stringberd (Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stringberd/251596422/
Piazza San Marco | Davide Oliva
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davideoliva/6778064191/
Times Square, New York | Asterio Tecson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asterix611/5315234373/
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What is the meaning of place
when physical space and
virtual space become
inseparable?
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Scale
Infrastructure
Placeness
Thank you.
Nam-ho Park | @namho | namho.park@gmail.com