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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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Inching Towards Progress

October 29, 2011 sienna Process Blog

My first post made it clear to me that I needed to define precisely what I was looking for; now it is clear that I

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Mapping Main Street

October 26, 2011 zzikki Map Critique

Mapping Main Street “Once you start looking, you’ll notice Main Streets are everywhere and tell all kinds of stories.” (Mapping Main Street)   Mapping Main

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Invincible Cities: A Photographer Builds Harlem

October 26, 2011 Alexandra Map Critique

“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.” – Rudolf Arnheim Invincible Cities is a website including maps

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Historic Movie Theater Letdown

October 26, 2011 fishmatt33 Class Announcement, Process Blog

I have always loved watching movies, but there is something about going to a movie theater that completely overtakes me.  Have I been there before,

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Map Critique: The Deleted City

October 26, 2011 laragheintz Map Critique, Process Blog

One of the advantages cartographic advances in mixed mediums is that it allows a degree of fluidity in data sets. As James Corner states, in

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Habitat Map is Looking for a Curriculum Specialist!

October 26, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement

Steve Taylor, from last year’s UMA, has passed along this job announcement from HabitatMap, a fantastic themed map about which he wrote his map critique

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Paper Prototyping November 9

October 25, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement

Take a look at last semester’s prototyping work here.

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Rosyln Bernstein and Shael Shapiro’s Illegal Living at 80 Wooster Walking Tour

October 25, 2011 danielle Process Blog

On Saturday, October 15th at 11 a.m., I joined writer Rosyln Bernstein and Shael Shapiro on a walking tour of SoHo, examining the presence of

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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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Pecha Kucha November 2!

October 23, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement

This exercise will serve to: help your classmates learn about your particular theoretical and topical interests (which will also help us start generating ideas about

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