BunjinPost to blog : Smartphonography Club : The Generous Interval
#Xiaomi #Xiaomi15TPro #smartphonography #photography #streetphotography #Tokyo #Japan #Tokyomaxxing #TokyoStreets #UrbanDesign #LuxuryInSimplicity #CityScape #PublicSpace
(Roughly) Daily“All the cities of the world are going to expand. We need to have a better understanding of what makes good urban habitat for home sapiens.”*…
The futuristic city in Bladerunner (source)“When did our vision of the future become so constrained, tired, and even dystopic?” Julien Crockett talks with Bruno Carvalho, the author of The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World, about the history of city planning and how urban design intertwines with a society’s prognostications and projections…
Cities have long been places of possibility—places where it seemed that we could break from the past and create an entirely new future. As Bruno Carvalho observes in his new book, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World, this mindset is a key feature of what it means to be “modern”—a sensibility toward the present and the future as it relates to the past.
Yet, as Carvalho’s wide-ranging history details, a break from the past does not assume a positive vision of the future. In fact, Carvalho begins his book with the question “Where did the future go?”—the title of a debate between the venture capitalist Peter Thiel and anthropologist David Graeber. Both imagine that the only cities of tomorrow are on Mars. When did our vision of the future become so constrained, tired, and even dystopic?
Carvalho’s book returns to a recurring paradox we have faced since the Enlightenment: the better our capacity for creation and prediction, the more limited our ability to imagine a new future. He marvels, though, that “we know some of what is coming: urbanization and climate change, life and death. Between all that, there is a lot of space for reinvention.”
In our conversation, we look to the past to help us think through what reinvention might look like and discuss what it means to plan for a radically different future. We also discuss the legacies of Silicon Valley, the construction of New York City, urban futures moving from the West across the Pacific, and whether Carvalho is optimistic about what’s to come…
Eminently worth reading and pondering: “Where Did the Future Go?” from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.
* Jan Gehl
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As we undertake to understand the urban, we might recall that it was on this date in 455 that the Vandals entered Rome, which they plundered for the next two weeks. It was, as sackings went (this was Rome’s third, of four altogether), relatively “light”: while the Vandals (who had destroyed all of Rome’s aqueducts on their approach) looted Roman treasure and sold many Romans into slavery, their leader Genseric acceded to the pleas of Pope Leo that the Vandals refrain from the wholesale slaughter of Rome’s population and the destruction of the Eternal City’s historic buildings.
Genserich’s Invasion of Rome, by Karl Bryullov (source) #ancientHistory #BrunoCarvalho #cities #city #cityPlanning #culture #future #Genseric #history #Rome #SackOfRome #society #urbanDesign #urbanPlanning #Vandals
mrbarricadeA bench in the right place, shaded, facing activity, near transit, says: you are allowed to rest here. You do not have to be moving to have a right to this space.
Where cities remove benches to discourage unhoused people, the message is opposite: public space is for movement and spending, not for being.
Where cities place benches and where they do not is a policy. It is a policy about who deserves to rest in public.
NewsletterTFCities Designed by Code, Not Comfort
AI can now design cities. But can it understand what people need for community and connection? Experts worry AI plans might ignore human experience.
#AICityPlanning, #UrbanDesign, #HumanCentricAI, #FutureCities, #TechEthics
https://newsletter.tf/ai-city-plans-human-needs-urban-design/
AI can now generate city plans, but its capacity to understand nuanced human needs is untested. This is a major concern for future urban living.
#AICityPlanning, #UrbanDesign, #HumanCentricAI, #FutureCities, #TechEthics
https://newsletter.tf/ai-city-plans-human-needs-urban-design/
ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide [Unofficial]Atal Sarovar at Rajkot Smart City / INI Design Studio
Global FeedLongevity isn’t just a personal quest—it’s a community one. 🌍
- Walkable neighborhoods & green spaces boost lifespan.
- Dense, supportive social networks cut mortality rates.
- Policy should invest in infrastructure that connects people, not just in individual “health hacks.”
Our health is as social as it is biological. #Longevity #UrbanDesign #SocialHealth #PublicPolicy #Wellbeing
Specialized Engineering Groupsنقابة المهندسين - بيروت
22-05-2026
📢 Open Call for Concept Proposal
20th Venice Architecture Biennale – Lebanese Pavilion
📍 Submission:
Printed proposals:
Ministry of Culture – National Library, Sanayeh, 1st Floor
Monday June 29 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📩 Soft copy:
[email protected]
🔗 More information:
English Version:
https://rebrand.ly/VENEZIA-ENG
Arabic Version:
https://rebrand.ly/VENEZIA-AR
#OEABeirut #VeniceBiennale #Architecture #Lebanon #UrbanDesign #LandscapeArchitecture #BiennaleVenezia
🧙🏽Muirén🦉One of the few good memories at a painful time in my childhood was Expo 67 at Montreal, and the Habitat 67 tour always stuck in my mind.
Not unlike the Japanese Metabolism movement, or perhaps a human formicarium, Habitat 67 was a 1960s experiment in dense, downtown housing that tried to combine the best of urban and suburban living.
Architect Moshe Safdie wanted to integrate the qualities of a suburban home, the access to nature and views into a high-rise.
Built for the 1967 World’s Fair at Montreal, Habitat 67 was also a prototype of an affordable “3D modular building system” that he hoped would “reinvent the apartment building.”
#History #Architecture #Urbanism #UrbanDesign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQaaftbHMi8
Habitat 67 stacks 354 prefabs that get urban/suburban balance
Nicholas A. FerrellPook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-22-26
I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break. Article Links 1. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore (Amanda Siberlin for TechCrunch. May 21, 2026.) This is a fair list but the article misses some nuance about the sources used by Startpage and Ecosia. I would add Mojeek to the selection. 2. Prosecutor charged for allegedly emailing self sealed Jack Smith Trump […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-05-22-26/
