https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/ en Copyright 2007 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:37:41 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The 2006 Free Thinking bloggers have all posted their last weblog. Thank you to everyone who contributed to these blogs and made them a place of lively debate. If you'd like to continue to explore ideas important to how humanity... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2007/01/thanks_and_invitation.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2007/01/thanks_and_invitation.shtml Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:37:41 +0000 The beginning of a folktale, which all of us know: A weary traveller arrives in a town at night. He is a stranger from afar, and he is alone. He knocks at doors, asking where he can stay, until he... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/hospitality_and_the_city.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/hospitality_and_the_city.shtml Progress Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:43:54 +0000 Thinking back to an earlier post on this blog, written at the time of Israel's bombardment of Beirut, I don't want to lose sight of the fact that contemporary cities are increasingly militarised spaces, and that city warfare is one... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/lethal_cities_and_eyal_weizman.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/lethal_cities_and_eyal_weizman.shtml Everyday cities Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:09:36 +0000 Look at this article from Newsweek earlier this year, which basically states that current growth - in population and productivity - is coming not from the established cities of the world, but from more flexible secondary cities. Great cities like... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/is_the_boom_in_the_smaller_cit.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/is_the_boom_in_the_smaller_cit.shtml Future Cities Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:15:21 +0000 While I was in the Caucasus, researching my current novel, I had a number of conversations about Chechnya, and the idea of a future Chechen state. Chechen intellectuals were wondering what model would be appropriate for their country, if and... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/citystates_and_the_complexity.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/citystates_and_the_complexity.shtml Future Cities Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:36:43 +0000 Asian Dub Foundation's video for ‘Flyover,’ the lead track on Tank: gives an interesting picture of London as a machinic, over-accelerated zone. https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/the_city_is_blind_but_it_will.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/the_city_is_blind_but_it_will.shtml Future Cities Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:53:29 +0000 I am indebted to Mrinalini Rajagopalan, PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, for adding the following to my earlier discussion of American architect Yamasaki. The architecture of Yamasaki and its unfortunate dance with death has one more... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/the_architecture_of_impregnabi_1.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/10/the_architecture_of_impregnabi_1.shtml Future Cities Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:10 +0000 At a time when it seems impossible to escape Hollywood's nauseating 9/11 narcissism - Oliver Stone's film is out this weekend here in England, just after we've got over United 93 - I wanted to write a few thoughts about... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/the_architecture_of_impregnabi.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/the_architecture_of_impregnabi.shtml Progress Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:37:07 +0000 The images that capture most interestingly the uncanny, amnesiac intensity of the contemporary global city come usually, for me, from China. Here I'll just mention two artists in this regard, but there are many others who spring to mind.... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/the_global_city_and_china.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/the_global_city_and_china.shtml Future Cities Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:08:43 +0000 Am in England for a short story festival in Sussex and once again contemplating the strangeness of my home country. I therefore post a poem I wrote after my last visit here to describe this feeling, at the centre of... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/the_strange_feeling_of_england.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/the_strange_feeling_of_england.shtml Everyday cities Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:35:48 +0000 Further to the earlier post comparing cities and internment camps, here is an extraordinary photo-essay about San Pedro prison in La Paz. https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/can_a_prison_be_a_city.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/can_a_prison_be_a_city.shtml Everyday cities Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:07:19 +0000 Jan Chipchase lives in Tokyo and runs a beautiful blog of photographs he has taken in cities all over the world: acutely observed details that help him read the cities he goes to. He calls this photograph, taken in... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/how_do_we_read_cities.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/how_do_we_read_cities.shtml Everyday cities Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:36:15 +0000 One of the most important thinkers about contemporary cities is Mike Davis, a radical urbanist who teaches at the University of California in Irvine. His recent book, Planet of Slums, is essential reading for anyone who wants to get a... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/mike_davis_planet_of_slums.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/mike_davis_planet_of_slums.shtml Future Cities Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:15:47 +0000 I want to approach this question by thinking about a related, and in some ways opposite, one. "Are internment camps good for creativity?" In some respects, though not all, the internment camp can be seen as the opposite, the alter... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/are_cities_good_for_creativity.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/are_cities_good_for_creativity.shtml Progress Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:18:05 +0000 Let's not forget the romance of cities. So much of the news from Paris is bad these days, but there is always that amazing texture. Have a close look here. https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/paris_by_night.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingworld/2006/09/paris_by_night.shtml Everyday cities Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:47:31 +0000