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Remember when Jesse Shapins and Brian House showed us how citizens of all stripes could magically morph into "critical media artists," using a handy little experiential dictionary as a point of departure? Well now Jesse has teamed up with Kara Oehler, Ann Heppermann and James Burns and the… 
10 15 09 • by Urban Omnibus • art, collaborative documentary, elsewhere, locative media, maps, public art
Remember how much fun we had when we got together and made a difference in two days? Well, a team of North Carolinians felt like taking matters into their own hands, without warning and without ceremony. Design activist extraordinaire…
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Urban Omnibus and The Infrastructurist talk to the founder of Zipcar and GoLoco about everything from mesh networks to taxi stands to why "infrastructure is destiny."
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Laura Forlano shares some examples of coworking in New York and discusses their implications for where, how, and with whom we work.
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This year, Postopolis was a five-day event, where bloggers of the built environment came back out from behind their keyboards, convening in a real, live urban environment. For me, this trip out west was a follow up to the first Postopolis that...
04 09 09 • by Rachel Abrams and Alissa Walker • blogosphere, elsewhere, journalism, review, urbanism
Next week on the Omnibus we’ll be sharing documentation of our first live event: last November, we worked with Bryan Bell, Founder of Design Corps, to convene six teams of young designers to design and build something in the public interest, constructed from found materials, in 48 hours. Bryan kicked the project off…
In San Francisco last week, the City Planning Commission—responding to neighborhood pressures—rejected an application by American Apparel to open a new store on Valencia Street in the city’s Mission District. No matter that the brand is well known for its social consciousness (and soft porn ads). The bald fact of their 250+ stores…
