The Town Paper: Is New Urbanism the Next Internet?

I was walking the dog this morning and I was reflecting on how the things we build on the digital world seem to mirror what we build on the physical one. Big social media platforms are the metropolis: dense, busy, chaotic. They’re the place that never sleeps and there’s always something new going on. Something new to see, something new to do. You’l... See more

Here’s another one. It’s everywhere:

Creating Sustainable Communities: Delivering Greenspace in the Thames Gateway

Don’t you love that terminology? “Delivering Greenspace.” Like it was a commodity that flows down a pipe. How about “Build a Park?” And what is so goddamn “sustainable” about “greenspace”? Do you plan to graze goats or something?

I don’t know which corners of the internet I’ll be drawn to next. But I know The Pattern will be there waiting for me. And it fills me with dread. Can you also feel it? That nagging sense that there’s a cancer spreading through the internet? That sense that humanity’s greatest invention has been captured by mediocrity and bad incentives and cowardi... See more

tiny internets is a research inquiry attempting to answer the question:

What does a more natural, soft, and quiet internet look like, one where the public spaces are actively shaped by us to not only use but live in?

And also

How do we facilitate serendipitous intimacy on the internet?

How do we make people aware that they are co-inhabiting a space

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