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Saturday, August 31, 2002
The World, a 12-deck, 43,000 ton, 644-foot passenger ship of condominiums has been inaugurated. Read the New York Times article On Ship of Condos, Life's an Endless Cruise
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:04 PM PST [Link]
Friday, August 30, 2002
Prior to teleco hotels come AT&T's switching stations and long line installations. See this web site for more.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 07:07 PM PST [Link]
At tonight's lecture, an audience member asked if data hotels in supposedly centerless cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas followed the typical re-used high rise typology of One Wilshire, 111 Eighth Avenue, and 60 Hudson Street. The answer is yes. See the Downtown Phoenix Technology Exchange and DataCom Hotel Las Vegas.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 12:17 AM PST [Link]
Thursday, August 29, 2002
An LA Times article today reports that Sprawl Adds to Drought.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 12:05 PM PST [Link]
Monday, August 26, 2002
Can hippie park design kill people? See Topography of Terror, Seattle's Freeway Park is a garden of earthly delights--for the city's crazed murderers and inhuman rapists! Apologies for this site's disappearance. Not only was DSL down, my entire phone connection was down for a few days.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 01:38 PM PST [Link]
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
The town of Weldon Springs, Missouri found a use for nuclear waste. See the LA Times article From Atomic Dump to Tourist Draw
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 05:36 AM PST [Link]
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
More on MOUT from Martin Shaw. Check out his essay New Wars of the City
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 02:40 AM PST [Link]
Monday, August 12, 2002
The New Scientist reports on the development of an e-bomb designed to knock out computers and its likely use in an invasion of Baghdad. See also this web site on Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain [MOUT]. Cities, military planners suggest, are "the post-modern equivalent of jungles and mountains - citadels of the dispossessed and irreconcilable. A military unprepared for urban operations across a broad spectrum is unprepared for tomorrow." See also, the detailed urbanoperations.com
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 08:36 AM PST [Link]
Friday, August 9, 2002
One Wilshire: Telco Hotel Central, prepared by Kazys Varnelis in association with The Center for Land Use Interpretation, opens today. This exhibit of still and moving images examines the Pacific Coast's main telecommunications hub and will be on view at the CLUI gallery until- September 1, 2002. I will be giving a talk entitled "Towers of Concentration, Lines of Growth: How Telcom Hotels and Fiber Optic Lines Shape the Contemporary City" on Thursday August 29 at 7.30 pm. [more info]
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 02:17 PM PST [Link]
Thursday, August 8, 2002
loud paper magazine finally has a url of its own! Many of Loud Paper's past articles are on-line. Two items of note: my teen urbanism and Mimi Zeiger's God Status (on Gordon Matta-Clark and Michael Hutchence). Strangely, I'm seeing a lot more interesting web sites these days even though the boom is over. Perhaps this is only sensible. The web's most exciting days were prior to the dot.com boom, when pointing a webcam at a coffee potwas a neat idea. The web is dead, long live the web.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 10:04 PM PST [Link]
Wednesday, August 7, 2002
A BBC article examines the survival of the New York City communications system after 9/11. Read here.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 01:44 AM PST [Link]
The LA Times story Behold the Post-Nomadic Economy surveys trends in demographics, settlement, and economy in the last two years.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 01:42 AM PST [Link]
Monday, August 5, 2002
kazys.net is in the process of switching servers and will also be reachable via varnelis.net. Let me know if there are any problems.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:13 AM PST [Link]
If the cost of real estate in cities continues to rise, what will happen when essential personnel are priced out of the housing market? The LA Times reports on Santa Clara's subsidized housing for teachers.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 01:58 AM PST [Link]
Sunday, August 4, 2002
Spray paint on a city street may be more important in shaping urban form than any urban plan. What do the mysterious symbols on our city streets mean? See this web site and this one.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:57 AM PST [Link]
A major monument of the NY5, Michael Graves's Snyderman House burns to the ground in a suspicious fire. See Newsday.com - Fire claims one of city's architectural gems.
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:57 AM PST [Link]
Santa Monica ponders a renovation of Frank Gehry's Santa Monica Place that sounds like it will remove the most significant traces of the architect's work (the deformed grids at the entrances and in the mall atria, the parking structure).
Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:56 AM PST [Link]
