Friday, November 17th, 2006
The synergy of two forces brings you this blast from the past – my 1995 Rutgers University undergraduate thesis in urban studies: My move from SF to NYC, which gave me the chance to revisit my archives in storage My new HP OfficeJet 7410 Wireless All-in-One with automatic document feeder Thank god for automatic document [...]
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
Telecommunications Infrastructure in Disasters: Preparing Cities for Crisis Communications http://www.nyu.edu/ccpr/pubs/NYU-DisasterCommunications1-Final.pdf A copy is also here in case NYU ever goes down.
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
I had an article published in Vodafone’s magazine special issue on East Asia. I returned from my first visit to Seoul three and a half years ago, astonished that such a teeming technological metropolis had managed to stay beneath the radar of western trend watchers. Compared to the amount of energy devoted to breathless tales [...]
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Monday, April 11th, 2005
About 3 years ago, Shell and the Economist co-sponsored an essay contest about the future of mobility. Here’s my non-winning entry, recently found while digging through my digital archives… Telecommunications, Mobility, and Land Use in the 21st Century City Anthony M. Townsend (Anthony.Townsend@nyu.edu) Research Scientist Taub Urban Research Center Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of [...]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
I have a co-authored piece with Bill Mitchell in the just released “The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster”. It’s called “Cyber Agonistes: Disaster and Reconstruction in the Digital Electronic Era” Here is information from the Oxford University Press and Amazon. Planetizen named it one of the top 10 planning books of 2004.
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
This is a short piece I was invited to write for an arty journal called “Acoustic Space: Trans Cultural Mapping”…. We currently stand at a unique moment in history as technological forces gather to reshape the urban environment through the use of locative media. The roots of this moment date back to 1979, when cellular [...]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
This is the final published version of research on some of my observations from Korea, published in Environment and Planning B for a special issue on “Space, Sociality and Pervasive Computing” edited by Bharat Dave. Seoul: Birth of a Broadband Metropolis
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
I made a contribution to this in collaboration with Matt Zook, Yuko Aoyama, and Martin Dodge. Zook, M., Dodge, M., Aoyama, Y., and A. Townsend. (2004). New Digital Geographies: Information, Communication, and Place. In Geography and Technology. Brunn, Cutter and Harrington (eds.). 155-176. Download new_digital_geographies.pdf
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2004
I’ve just published an article in the New Statesman, a British public affairs magazine, on what the UK can learn from Korea’s success in developing broadband infrastucture. You can read my short article or the entire 30+ page supplement.
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Monday, March 22nd, 2004
In this article for the architecture journal Praxis, I sought to lay out the way I’ve been thinking about the rapid and sometimes chaotic introduction of four classes of digital technology into urban space (wireless, GPS/positioning, GIS, and displays). I investigate these trends in four cases: Times Square and Union Square in New York, Tokyo’s [...]
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