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Hearing Urban Infrastructure

Shannon Mattern
The New School wordsinspace.net

Halifax, Canada
This modest indentation on the Canadian coastline is a major Internet landmark, a sort of Ellis Island of the Web: Its where a submarine cable owned by Hibernia Atlantic comes ashore. (Eleven major lines cross the Atlantic, and this one lands under the manhole, above left.) This particular bit started at a Hibernia sister station in Southport, England, and traversed the ocean in about 0.0028 second. It will then skip along one of two fiber-optic thoroughfares: the crossCanada pipe, which goes to Montreal and points west, or the southern route, down the East Coast, through Boston to New York City.
Via Blum, Netscapes, Wired: http://bit.ly/8ZmQIl

via InfraNet Lab: http://bit.ly/h36Gdy

via leonelponce on Flickr: http://bit.ly/ndktH6

Jeffrey MacMillan for The Washington Post

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http://vimeo.com/20412632

MEDIA CITY
Salford, UK

Dubai

Seoul

William Henry Fox Talbot: West Front, York Minster, from Lendal Street, ca. 1845

Berenice Abbott: Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan, 1935

Charles Marville, Rue Basse-des-Ursins, le de la Cit, 1865; The Piercing of the Avenue de lOpra, 1865

Charles Marville, Rue de Rivoli, 1877

Adolf Loos, Villa Mller, Prague, 1930

S. Eisenstein, Montage and Architecture, 1938

Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Las Vegas Studio, 1968

Inception, 2010

Levittown, PA

has been underway at least since the development of technological images in the context of urban modernization in the mid19th century (Scott McQuire, The Media City, 2008, p. vii)

from the hand-held camera at the end of the 19th century to the mobile phone at the end of the 20th, the city has always been a mediated construct (Eric Gordon, The
Urban Spectator, 2010, p. 2)

Serlio, Primo Libro, 1551; Paju Book City, South Korea, under construction

Via LNL

Richard Pare, View of the Shabolovka Radio Tower, Moscow, Russia, 2000 CCA Collection

CCA Collection

Dhaka

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929 Willis Polk, Hallidie Building, 1917-18

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CCA Collection

Testing the ringing rocks @ Stonehenge:


http://bit.ly/60wxa8

View of the Acropolis from the Pnyx via WallyG on Flickr: http://bit.ly/Lcb8Fd

CCA Collection

Via http://tallinnsoundmap.wordpress.com/

Mechanics Hall, Boston

Avery Fisher, via Fortune, 1946

Via http://bit.ly/JScmPa

Via LaMetropole: http://bit.ly/L7QYef

Via http://bit.ly/GRXrFj

Via NYTimes

Via Soundscrapers: http://bit.ly/KF1zdS

Via http://bit.ly/ArwWxc

Pirate radio: transmitter, microwave link, antennae, transmission and studio sites; records, record shops, studios, dub plates; turntables, mixers, amplifiers, headphones; microphones; mobile phones, SMS, voice; reception technologies, reception locations, DJ tapes; drugs; clubs, parties; flyers, stickers, posters [A]s all the various elements organize in combination within the sound, across the city, through a jumble of available media, there is also a sense in which the polyphony traversing the signal echoes a wider sense of connective disjuncture as a crucial term of composition The media ecology is synthesized by the broke-up combination of parts
Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies

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