The TypescriptOct 31

Digitization and its Discontents
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Is it just me, or is the digital universe getting worse by the day? I find many apps and web services to have become unnecessarily complicated and increasingly frustrating to use. There’s often something that doesn’t work properly, or that is simply very badly designed. There are increasingly paywalls everywhere, an
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The TypescriptSep 6, 2025
Two-Timing Tower
The new training tower recently completed at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron fire station, designed by local architect Carles Enrich, plays a dual role within its neighborhood. It is at once a state-of-the-art training facility for firefighters, and an urban landmark in a peripheral area of the city–an area characterized by a mix of high-rise modernist housing blocks, mid-rise
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The TypescriptMar 23, 2023
Sharing School: Public Education as Public Space
Barcelona has some of the densest neighborhoods in Europe, so it is a city rife with conflicting demands over public space. Drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians quarrel over street space; young and elderly over what
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ChrisTeenNov 9, 2022

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Hello I am joining from #essex #uk Originally an #engineer working in #construction. A champion of #skills and #diversity and especially promoting #tradeswomen into #thebuiltenvironment. Passionate about #adulteducation #firstchance #secondchance #lifelonglearning