Category Archives: Digital phenomena

Old Street – putting the genie back in the bottle?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

Old Street Roundabout is a heady intersection of urban movement flows: on foot, on cycles and in vehicles, including the Tube. But it is currently a mess, out of place within the surrounding network of generally convivial streets. In order … Continue reading →

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UBM Future Cities

Posted on October 20, 2012 by

My piece in full

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Urban Process Diagram

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

 

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Future Cities_Cities of Transaction

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Thinking about the future of cities is not a new challenge. From Christopher Wren’s plan for the post-fire rebuilding of London in 1666 to Ebenezer Howards’s Garden City concept, to Le Corbusier, to Bladerunner, human ingenuity has been tasked with … Continue reading →

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Goodbye spacesyntax.org hello spacesyntax.net

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

After a decade of earnest, if occasionally erratic, service the spacesytax.org website has been retired. Designed to serve the community of space syntax researchers, .org created the first place online that brought together the various strands of space syntax academic … Continue reading →

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IBM Smart Cities, Helsinki – latest notes

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

9.50 Keynote What will the future city look like? The city of transaction How to plan a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable city The effects of the digital revolution on human behaviour patterns Tim Stonor, Architect & Urban Planner, Managing … Continue reading →

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IBM Smart Cities, Helsinki

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

19th October 2011 Tim Stonor “What will the future city look like?” View the presentation Themes to be addressed 1. How to plan a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable city. 2. Effects of the digital revolution on human behaviour patterns. … Continue reading →

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The end of ages for transport planning and the birth of an era of transaction planning

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

There is so much interest, from so many different interests, in the future of urban living. This suggests that, whatever else, people suspect that things will change. I’m sure this is right – technology, resource scarcity, population growth, energy shortage … Continue reading →

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Measuring & modelling cities

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

11th May 2011 2011 Urban Systems Symposium NYU Shack Institute of Real Estate, New York Download presentation

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Spatial layout, urban movement & human transaction

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Download my presentation “Designing mobility for democracy: the role of cities“ #demobility Thursday, 14th April 2011 from 1pm to 5pm NYU, Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium 60 Washington Square South, New York Summary Given the title of this event: … Continue reading →

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Space Syntax & the future of urban planning software

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Notes from a lecture given at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 23rd March 2011 View a summary of the presentation on YouTube Opening comments Good afternoon. I am delighted to have this opportunity to report on my progress as this … Continue reading →

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Academics “embrace” Wikipedia – shock!

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

“Demonising Wikipedia won’t work. It’s massively used and it’s in all our interests to make it massively better.” Nieman Journalism Fellow and BBC reporter Philippa Thomas comments in her blog on the myth and reality of Wikipedia. Here’s the full … Continue reading →

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Giving it all away? Space Syntax & the future of urban planning software

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Notes for a lecture to be given at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 23rd March 2011   Themes With notable exceptions, the current use of technology in planning and, especially, urban design/architecture practice is medieval. More visual than analytic. … Continue reading →

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The pace of change – is “online” a reflection of “urban”?

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

One of the challenges in achieving an integration of thinking between hackers and urbanists is the rate of change online. Will the massive experimentation currently underway on the internet continue at a pace, or settle down as norms are established … Continue reading →

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Architecting the unexpected

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

“Serendipity”: it’s what cities have always provided but online environments only sometimes produce. Why “search” isn’t enough, hackers need to think like urbanists and the internet needs urban design. It’s the start of a new semester at Harvard and there’s a … Continue reading →

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Connecting the disconnected – how much is enough?

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Yesterday evening, Ed Parham gave a talk at the Graduate School of Design on Space Syntax’s work redesigning unplanned settlements in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Despite the really awful weather, which turned Cambridge into a pedestrian sludge, there was a full … Continue reading →

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Technology – it’s the new concrete!

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

Stub… Pouring concrete used to be the “macho” expression of urban planning power. Today it is technology. “Macho” has translated into “cool”. Risk – we jump too quickly through the filter of common sense ie the “What’s all this for?” … Continue reading →

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Good ideas come from crowds & liquid networks

Posted on November 7, 2010 by

An article on the BBC Business website neatly summarises Steven Johnson’s research findings on the origins of innovations: “Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple … Continue reading →

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Chance encounter – not so random

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Stub… An algorithm in Facebook organises the frequency of seeing different friends’ news feeds – based on the frequency of your Facebook contact with your friends. Some friends are only contacted by certain people on Facebook because they don’t necessarily … Continue reading →

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J-term course proposal

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Instructor Name Tim Stonor Program/Affiliation Loeb Fellow Email tstonor@gsd.harvard.edu Previous teaching experience 1996-1998 Course Director, Master of Science in Architecture, the Bartlett, University College London. Current Honorary Senior Lecturer, the Bartlett, University College London. Course title Introduction to Space Syntax … Continue reading →

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