Month: April 2003

More detail on the conversion of LA’s Transamerica Tower to housing. See the LA Times: Historic Tower May Become Housing

Will Los Angeles’s Transamerica Tower become the next hip place to live? See the LA Times’s Historic Tower May Become Housing

If Le Corbusier argued that his urban plans allowed cities to survive firebombing and chemical attack (see the April 16 entry) and if the decentralized American city is partly the result of Cold War attempts to ensure survival of critical facilities after nuclear attack, then what might we imagine our contemporary urbanism might spawn? As various articles on this web site and recent work on audc’s site demonstrate, much of my current research investigates the role of fiber optics and networking technology in shaping today’s city. Well, as it turns out, the model for the Iraq war and one of the key factors in US superiority has been the development of a model of ‘network centric’ warfare. See this article, or this article, visit the Department of Defense’s Report to the US Congress or look at this massive twurled-world collection of links on infowar. Finally, check out this leaflet dropped by Coalition Forces on Iraq. An entire gallery of such leaflets is viewable here. Expect more this summer on the topic at varnelis.net