Brad Weed

@bradweed
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Geography writer at interplace.io. Sustainable transportation + land use advocate. Pragmatic Interactionist.
Former thirty-year Microsoft Interaction Design and User Research leader and pathfinder.
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What if equality began with a simple rule: be treated as one of the public wherever you go? #CivilRights #BlackHistory @geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @geospatial https://open.substack.com/pub/interplace/p/from-microsoft-to-the-surveillance
A sidewalk can turn into a border overnight. When home becomes a risk calculation, it’s not just policy. It’s a technique with a long Minnesota history. From 1862’s scaffold to today’s street seizures, what returns and what resists. @geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @geospatial https://interplace.io/p/street-snatches-stolen-soil-and-the
From Seattle to New York by steel and signal, this video follows not just tracks—but terrain, tectonics, and time. Come ride through the layers. @geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @geospatial
https://interplace.io/p/red-white-and-choo-choo
Hilberseimer dreamed of efficient cities. Amazon built them. But at what cost to connection, agency, and public life?
@geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @socialpsych @urbanisma.gup.pe @geospatial
https://interplace.io/p/the-hollow-city
The Hollow City

Urban form in the age of absence

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Neighborhoods still exist—but are they still neighborly? Platform capitalism is reshaping where we live, and how.
@geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @socialpsych @urbanisma.gup.pe @geospatial
https://interplace.io/p/the-hollow-city
The Hollow City

Urban form in the age of absence

Interplace
This dual strategy — controlling the narrative and enforcing it through space — creates a self-reinforcing cycle. https://interplace.io/p/manufactured-mayhem-muzzles-the-masses
Manufactured Mayhem Muzzles the Masses

How authoritarianism exploits fear to shape the world

Interplace
Strongman leaders don’t just exploit insecurity — they thrive where instability is built into everyday life. https://interplace.io/p/manufactured-mayhem-muzzles-the-masses
Manufactured Mayhem Muzzles the Masses

How authoritarianism exploits fear to shape the world

Interplace
Are people like Trump and Bongino (the new deputy FBI director) born this way or were they socially constructed through interactions, cultural narratives, and institutions? @geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @socialpsych https://interplace.io/p/manufactured-mayhem-muzzles-the-masses
Manufactured Mayhem Muzzles the Masses

How authoritarianism exploits fear to shape the world

Interplace
The schism between Marx and Bakunin stemmed from Bakunin’s belief that Marx’s vision of a proletarian dictatorship would lead to Marx and his followers wielding centralized state power instead of dismantling hierarchy. @geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @socialpsych https://interplace.io/p/manufactured-mayhem-muzzles-the-masses
Manufactured Mayhem Muzzles the Masses

How authoritarianism exploits fear to shape the world

Interplace
From doctors and car mechanics to clergy and teachers, Americans interact with numerous professionals in their daily lives. But trust has mostly declined since 2000. I write about how geography matters.👇 @geography @DialoguesHG @Geopolitics @socialpsych https://interplace.io/p/trust-in-flux-power-in-play
Trust in Flux, Power in Play

How shifting trust and geographies reshapes us, our communities, and our connection

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