Where Does It Come From? A brief history of computers and the city
so visual that it's hard to summarize. ask Molly for a copy of the presentation. sorry!
thinking of cities not just as social technology but as "intelligent" -- ie, artificial intelligence
Marvin Minsky, JC Licklider, etc
"The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly."
JC Licklider, 1960
3 modes of computing and architecture and city
representing and visualizing
defining the problem to solve
generating symbiotic systems
ivan sutherland and sketchpad, 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA
"Design today has reached the stage where sheer inventiveness can no longer sustain it."
- C. Alexander, 1963
defining design problems as a series of misfits -- as a series of things that you need to design to smooth over
Alexander - systems generating systems
Nicholas Negroponte
"Someday machines wil go to libraries to read and learn and laugh and will drive about cities to experience and to observe the world."
Leave a comment