If you haven't read this piece about Denise Scott Brown and the architectural establishment's erasure of her––her co-authorship of LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS with Robert Venturi, and her legacy as an artist––you should. It's very good.

The book is mostly technical, but strives to eschew the naive techno-optimistism or market fundamentalism of conventional smart city hype.

The pandemic has ushered in further tracing by tracking. Already, contract-tracing apps and devices have become commonplace in China and Singapore, and companies like Apple and Google, as well as the policing- and spy-tech company Palantir, _...Read More_

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