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Deep Mapping theMedia City

Shannon Mattern | The New School wordsinspace.net | @shannonmattern

Rem Koolhaas, Asian City of Tomorrow, SMLXL

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Alvar Aaltos Woodberry Poetry Room

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Via Michael Chen + Justin Snider, Signal Space Urban Omnibus

http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/

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Agbogbloshie dump, in Accra, Ghana. Andrew McConnell

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Nicole Starosielski, Surfacing

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Via Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/56351576http://vimeo.com/56351576

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Via CellCrypt

http://www.cellcrypt.com/solutions/satellite-solutionhttp://www.cellcrypt.com/solutions/satellite-solution

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A city...is not a flattenablegraph. In a city, networksoverlap upon othernetworks(Friedrich Kittler,

The City is a Medium,

New

Literary History 27:4 (1996): 719)

Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum, Manhattan Timeformations,2000

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Via DeviantArt

http://quake-and-bake.deviantart.com/art/Quad-Antenna-56872588http://quake-and-bake.deviantart.com/art/Quad-Antenna-56872588

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Christallers Central Place Theory

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Via Archaeology Excavations:http://bit.ly/HJpck0

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Via National Park Service, Tumaccori

Dig, 1935

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Daguerreotype via Archaeographer

http://www.archaeographer.com/Portraits/Daguerreotypes-Series-One/7279575_qwqzdR/467979939_noaQihttp://www.archaeographer.com/Portraits/Daguerreotypes-Series-One/7279575_qwqzdR/467979939_noaQi

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Dhaka

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of Urban TION

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William Henry Fox Talbot:West Front, York Minster,

from Lendal Street , ca. 1845

Berenice Abbott: Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan , 1935

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Charles Marville,Rue Basse-des-Ursins, le de la Cit , 1865;The Piercing of the Avenue de l Opra , 1865

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Charles Marville,Rue de Rivoli , 1877

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Adolf Loos, Villa Mller, Prague, 1930

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Mies van der Rohes Photo Collages

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Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Las Vegas Studio, 1968

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Inception , 2010

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Levittown, PA

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from the hand-heldcamera at the end of the 19th century to themobile phone at the endof the 20th, the city has

always been a mediatedconstruct.

Eric Gordon, The Urban Spectator (2010)

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Serlio, Primo Libro, 1551; Paju Book City, South Korea, Phase 2 under construction

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Alhambra Inscriptions, via Lucio Quadrio on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaquadrio/8414457854/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaquadrio/8414457854/

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Ekklesiasterion,Public Meeting Place/Theater,Priene

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INFRASTRUCTURALENTANGLEMENTS

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Via http://bit.ly/GFclmm

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Via igic.org

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NationalGeographicInteractive, 1996

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyundergroundhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyundergroundhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyundergroundhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyunderground

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Via MakingMaps.net

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Via LNL

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Via University of Tennesse

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Via The World Around Us

http://bit.ly/HVgxQghttp://bit.ly/HVgxQg

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Peruvian Geoglyphs;

http://bit.ly/HUOmhXhttp://bit.ly/HUOmhXhttp://bit.ly/HUOmhXhttp://bit.ly/HUOmhX

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Ben Millen, iPhone Deconstruction [/Archaeology]

http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155

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Telegraph Wires + Train Tracks;Fiber Optic Cables in Parisian Sewers

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OPSYS/Alexandra Gauzza; forHarvard GSD, Landscape Futures

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Via Derek Watkins

Visualization of thespread of post offices

http://blog.dwtkns.com/2011/posted_interactive/http://blog.dwtkns.com/2011/posted_interactive/

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Telegraph Wires + Train Tracks;Fiber Optic Cables in Parisian Sewers

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Via GaWC Research Bulletin

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Subjective Cartographies: Mapping Telecom Infrastructure in Bangalore

http://bangalore.metamap.fr/http://bangalore.metamap.fr/

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We build our subjective maps by combining different methods: photography, film, and sound

recording; we use home-made tools and sensors toexplore the visible and invisible electromagnetic city; we make measurements by taking water from street vendors and performing DIY biological analysis(with webcams made into microscopes); we adoptpsycho-geographical approaches in exploring territory; we produce expressions of personalsubjectivity; and we have meetings with experts and

witnesses.

Ewen Chardronnet & Benjamin Cadon, Bangalore : SubjectiveCartography , Mutations .

http://www.emop-mutations.net/projet,3,29,ewen-chardronnet-and-benjamin-cadon-bangalore---subjective-cartography.htmlhttp://www.emop-mutations.net/projet,3,29,ewen-chardronnet-and-benjamin-cadon-bangalore---subjective-cartography.htmlhttp://www.emop-mutations.net/projet,3,29,ewen-chardronnet-and-benjamin-cadon-bangalore---subjective-cartography.htmlhttp://www.emop-mutations.net/projet,3,29,ewen-chardronnet-and-benjamin-cadon-bangalore---subjective-cartography.htmlhttp://www.emop-mutations.net/projet,3,29,ewen-chardronnet-and-benjamin-cadon-bangalore---subjective-cartography.html

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MULTISENSORY METHODS

British Library Sound Archive; via Wikimedia

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Richard Pare, View of the Shabolovka Radio Tower, Moscow,Russia, 2000; Canadian Centre for Architecture Collection

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Street side handbills, Puducherry;

via Wikimedia

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Via Touch

http://www.nearfield.org/2007/12/fictional-radio-spaceshttp://www.nearfield.org/2007/12/fictional-radio-spaces

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Kate McLeans Sensory Maps

http://sensorymaps.blogspot.fi/2011/02/smell-edinburgh.htmlhttp://sensorymaps.blogspot.fi/2011/02/smell-edinburgh.html

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Windchime Map of Boylan Heights, OH; By Denis Wood, Carter Crawfordand Jimmy Thiem; in Wood, Everything Sings

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DEEP MAPPING THE MEDIACITY

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Ian McHargs Dune Community Types, from Sea and Survival , 1969; Sequential sections through maidan edges, Filter/Collector: Anchoring the Edge in Mumbais Maidans.Nicholas Pevzner, 2009;

via Pevzner & Carlisle

http://landscapeurbanism.com/article/the-performative-ground/http://landscapeurbanism.com/article/the-performative-ground/http://landscapeurbanism.com/article/the-performative-ground/http://landscapeurbanism.com/article/the-performative-ground/

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Oyster-tecture , MoMA Rising Currents Exhibition. SCAPE/ Landscape Architecture, 2010.

http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/

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Di it l t h l i h d ibl th

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Digital technologies have made possible thefashioning of more dynamic and flexible depictionsof ancient spaces, all readily linked to metadatathat documents the level of accuracy of restoredcomponents. A rich range of sensorial stimuli canbe added to kinetic viewing to shape more robustrecreations of the original environmental

experience. Depictions of actual times of day, year,and century reaffirm the essential temporalaspects. Various experimental scenarios can bepresented to ascertain the impact of alternativereconstructions, climatic conditions, andhypothetically distributed ephemera.

Diane Favro and Christopher Johanson, "Death in Motion: FuneralProcessions in the Roman Forum, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69, no. 1 (2010): 15.

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Michele Tucci & Alberto Giordano, Positional Accuracy,Positional Uncertainty, and Feature Change Detection inHistorical Maps Computers, Environment and Urban A

35, no. 6 (2011).

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A city...is not a flattenablegraph. In a city, networksoverlap upon other networks.

(Friedrich Kittler,

The City is aMedium,

New Literary History 27:4(1996): 719)

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attempts to record and represent the grainand patina of place through juxtapositionsand interpenetrations of the historical andthe contemporary, the political and thepoetic, the discursive and the sensual; theconflation of oral testimony, anthology,memoir, biography, natural history andeverything you might ever want to sayabout a place.

attempts to record and represent the grain andpatina of place through juxtapositions andinterpenetrations of the historical and thecontemporary, the political and the poetic, thediscursive and the sensual; the conflation of oral

testimony, anthology, memoir, biography, naturalhistory and everything you might ever want to say about a place.

Mike Pearson & Michael Shanks,Theatre/Archaeology (New York:Routledge, 2001), 64-5.

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Via igic.org

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Subjective Cartographies: Mapping Telecom Infrastructure in Bangalore

http://bangalore.metamap.fr/http://bangalore.metamap.fr/

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Charles & Ray Eames,for IBM

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city , county, state andother services supportand protectneighborhoods. HereBoylan Heights, in gray,is seen nested within,smallest to largest, its

service routes(newspaper, mail), city service districts (police,fire, garbage, planning),a state election district

and county schoolattendance zones. ByDenis Wood and JaneNorton

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Via Derek Watkins

Visualization of thespread of post offices

http://blog.dwtkns.com/2011/posted_interactive/http://blog.dwtkns.com/2011/posted_interactive/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ptCAisl2w

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ptCAisl2w

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Via Informality Takes Over

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Bike Messenger Boys; Western Union Collection; Smithsonian

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Its possible to walk all the way fromPacific Place, in Wan Chai, to theMacau ferry terminal in Sheung Wan(about 2km away) without setting footonce at street level.

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Via SCMP

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1193675/infographic-remembering-kowloon-walled-cityhttp://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1193675/infographic-remembering-kowloon-walled-city

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Via IFMR Finance

http://financingcities.ifmr.co.in/blog/2012/11/29/mapping-infrastructure-and-conducting-household-surveys/http://financingcities.ifmr.co.in/blog/2012/11/29/mapping-infrastructure-and-conducting-household-surveys/

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Via

http://financingcities.ifmr.co.in/blog/category/process/current-state-diagnostic/http://financingcities.ifmr.co.in/blog/category/process/current-state-diagnostic/

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Via Michael Chen + Justin Snider, Signal Space Urban Omnibus

http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/

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Pirating Cable; Laying Fiber Optic Cable, via Wikimedia

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OPSYS/Alexandra Gauzza;for Harvard GSD, Landscape Futures

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PROTOTYPE

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PROTOTYPE

Nicole Starosielski

This and next several slides via Nicole Starosielski REDACTED!

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