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Deep Time and the Roads More Traveled
From Lapham’s Quarterly comes a series of maps exploring ‘deep time’ in a number of different ways. They’re all worth checking out, but particularly fascinating to me is this map of “Beaten Paths.” A...
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Stephen Graham to Speak at the LSE
Back in April, I wrote about emerging patterns of urban warfare and the new surveillance state that continues to grow in modern cities. Much of what I wrote was inspired by Geoff Manaugh’s amazing work...
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This Was Once a Country Where People Made Things
Aside from the usual terrible, terrible commentary both at YouTube and the site I found this at, it’s an excellent ad (at least for the first 40 seconds). It doesn’t matter if you’re from the East...
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On Leadership
President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, January 2009. I seem to have lost faith in the promise of the Obama administration, which has pursued a radically centrist agenda and left me sorely...
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Full Steam Ahead
Talk about setting your sights low. The current Amtrak plan for the Northeast Corridor calls for reducing travel times – over the next twenty years – by 4 minutes between Philadelphia and New York, and...
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Resilience Through Incompetence
The electric grid of the United States. Overall, it’s hard to tell whether this story comes as a relief or not. Short version: the illogicality and inconsistency with which the national power grid...
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Erratics and Invasives
Current political organizations? A template for the future? Either way, it would appear that blocks are the key. Found without further commentary at fake is the new real. Tagged: government,...
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Escape from Heathrowistan
I’ve been back in America for several days now (and thank God, made it home in time for Christmas), but it became quite an ordeal getting out of the United Kingdom. Quite possibly the only snowplow at...
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The Fires: A Review
Joe Flood is perhaps the best possible name for the author of a book called The Fires. Or, more completely, The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New...
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Preparedness
In the wake of absolutely historic, devastating flooding of New York and its infrastructure in particular, it’s worth revisiting a piece from the New York Times: “Hurricanes on the Hudson.” A report...
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