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Monthly Archives: May 2011

The City as Continuous Edifice, Monument and Fortress

I just came across this video that Adam Ryder made in 2009.  It’s an excellent remix of nine science fiction films, fulfilling (and generating) tropes of dystopian urban futures. Also, excellent title. In his words, “Overcrowded, overbuilt, and dystopic, these films offer us an extrapolation of today’s urban development problems if allowed to progress unchecked [...]

Funfair!

Here’s a little photographic slideshow with audio field recordings that Jonathan Prior and I put together from our wander around Leith, just outside of Edinburgh, Scotland.  The funfair was in a spillover car park for the Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre shopping center in the partially-regenerated port area.  We were exploring the area last month when [...]