Events Episode 1: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim

Scott Rodgers

Mediapolis Now, no. 4, vol. 6September 27, 2021<September 27, 2021

Events Episode 1: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim

by Scott Rodgers

In the latest episode of our Events podcast series, Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim discuss the Predictive Cities VR Exhibition, specially available to Mediapolis listeners and readers until the end of 2021.

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 5August 27, 2020<August 27, 2020

Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic

by Scott Rodgers

Scott Rodgers explores the novelties and continuities of emergent, very local uses of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what they indicate about our deepening interdependencies with platforms.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 10, 2018<November 9, 2018

The Horizons of Platformed Urban Politics

by Scott Rodgers & Susan Moore

In this wrap up to the Platform Urbanism roundtable, Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore argue that horizons of a platformed urban politics should entail critical engagement and practice.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 9, 2018<November 9, 2018

“Highest and Best Use” from the Plan to the Platform

by John Stehlin

John Stehlin considers the historical resonances and specificity of platform urbanism.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 8, 2018<November 8, 2018

On the Slippages in Platform Urbanisms

by Matthew W. Wilson

Matthew Wilson argues that, as a form of “self-city-nation,” platform urbanisms enable slippages between the self and outside organizing forces that expand logics of quantification.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 7, 2018<November 8, 2018

Platform Urbanism Rejoinder: Why now? What now?

by Sarah Barns

Sarah Barns uses Henri Lefebvre's theories of the quotidian to consider platform urbanism as a mode of ‘everyday’ urban intervention.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 5, 2018<November 5, 2018

Platforms as urban technology?

by Lizzie Richardson

Lizzie Richardson's followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 27, 2018<October 27, 2018

Quantified Self-City-Nation

by Matthew W. Wilson

Matthew W. Wilson considers the technicity of maps and ‘quantified self-city-nation’ as a general theory for the technoscientific solutions we offer to confront socio-technical problems.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 26, 2018<October 26, 2018

We Are All Platform Urbanists Now

by Sarah Barns

Sarah Barns argues that a platform urbanism should be more than a focus of academic critique, but also a site for radical appropriations of urban space.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 24, 2018<October 25, 2018

Becoming-Platform, the Urban and the City

by Maroš Krivý

Maroš Krivý examines the smart city as both the smart city and the smart city.

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