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The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei

The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei

Back in 2016, I wrote an article for How We Get To Next on an informal settlement called Treasure Hill, in Taiwan, that could be a prototype for the future of sustainable urban living. How We Get To Next is still online in archived format, but with bitrot being what

Putting Music on the Map

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Putting Music on the Map

Our songs are trapped in time. They’re chronologically fixed. Even “Longplayer” — a piece of music written by Jem Finer that’s designed to last for one thousand years [http://longplayer.org/] — has an ending. Why? What’s so great about time that music has to have a duration? I’

From the Archive: Why We Name the Weather

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From the Archive: Why We Name the Weather

The other day, Will Chase published a wonderful data visualization [https://twitter.com/W_R_Chase/status/1290299036042276864] of retired Atlantic hurricane names. > 🚨 New Project! With 2020 predicted to be a big hurricane season, now would be a great time to see my graphic feature in the August issue of

From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres

From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres

Back in May 2018, I attended OpenVisConf in Paris, and I took the opportunity to visit the "Artistes et Robots" [https://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/evenement/artistes-robots] exhibition at the Grand Palais. I saw a pen plotter artwork artwork by Vera Molnár there that really struck me, titled Structure de

From the Archive: Fowl Plague

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From the Archive: Fowl Plague

Back in 2017, I worked on a series of articles about the risk of a major pandemic for How We Get To Next. The series was called Fowl Plague [https://howwegettonext.com/fowl-plague-82f020309aaa] - not my pun, unfortunately, but the original name for avian influenza when it was discovered in

From the Archive: Cable Cars Are Changing the World

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From the Archive: Cable Cars Are Changing the World

Back in 2017, I wrote a lengthy feature on cable cars - and specifically how they're a vital tool in urban planners' arsenals. I wrote the story, provided my own photography, and even designed little pixel art cable car spacers. You can read it here: Cable Cars Are Changing the