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Urban Media Archaeology 2011

This is the website for the Fall 2011 "Urban Media Archaeology" graduate seminar-studio, taught by Shannon Mattern and Rory Solomon at The New School.

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“Tour Guides Nobody Tips”

November 28, 2011 fishmatt33 Class Announcement, In the News

Just read this in the Sunday New York Times Metropolitan section, thought these may be relevant for a few projects.  The last time I tried

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MapMap Vauxhall: Mind Warping Maps

November 26, 2011 christo In the News

MapMap Vauxhall by Benedickt Groß transforms OpenStreetMaps to match hand drawn mental maps of a neighborhood. Where the NYPL’s Map Warper conforms historical maps to

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The Ginger Island Project- Could be useful for the Fluxus Mapping Project?

November 3, 2011 laragheintz Event, Events, In the News

I’ll admit- this is mostly for Danielle but could be interesting to others- I stumbled upon this the other and figured it may be useful

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Music Mapping in NYC

October 24, 2011 Lres In the News, Process Blog

Since I have changed my topic to mapping live music  venues/halls in New York City I have spent some time doing research on the different

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A History of the World in 100 Seconds

October 17, 2011 sarafusco In the News

Perhaps some of you have seen this already, but I just came across this very interesting data visualization of Wikipedia-referenced historic events, and thought I’d

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Mapping Manhattan’s Coffee Addiction

October 16, 2011 Lres In the News

I am not sure if someone was mapping coffee shops…or just book stores in Manhattan. But as I was researching for my map critique I

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Mapping GeoCities

October 5, 2011 laragheintz In the News

Hey all found this article in GOOD this morning on how Dutch designer, Richard Vijen, plotted all data from the former GeoCities into a scrollable

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City-as-Archive: Migrant Networks

September 22, 2011 christo In the News, Process Blog

There are 800 different languages spoken around the city of New York. A recent article infers that a significant portion of these languages are oral only,

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“If You Were to Make a City…”

September 21, 2011 fishmatt33 In the News

This was in the Metropolitan section of the New York Times on Sunday September 11, 2011.  Not the best maps/diagrams I have seen them produce

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Scientific American’s Cities Issue

September 16, 2011 Farah In the News

This is more relevant to the “urban” part of the class than the “media archaeology” part, but Scientific American magazine’s September issue is all about

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