Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Technology & The City

Journey to the interface
Since 'service' mediates people's relations not only with the private but the public sector too, redesigning it could transform people's relationship to the state
Sophia Parker & Joe Heapy, Demos, 5 July 2006

The Magic Kingdom could save Venice from destruction
If Venice were owned by the Disney Corporation, Venice would not be in peril.
John Kay, Financial TImes, 13 June 2006

Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
American security services fund research in to the mass harvesting of information that people post about themselves on social networks
New Scientist, 8 June 2006

A car for all - or mobility for all? Part II
'Overall, the challenge is to move to a level of integration where vehicles and services work together to offer enhanced mobility to people of all ages and abilities.'
Roger Coleman and Dale Harow, uiGarden.net, 7 June 2006

Tomorrow's world
Cinema remains the best place to experience the architectural imagination at full flight
Jonathan Glancey, Guardian, 21 May 2006

Myspace and control
On Myspace, interaction between users is effectively eliminating the lines between personal communication and advertising
Fred Scharmen, sevenisfive.net, 30 April 2006

New Orleans and the New Urban vision
Austin Williams, Spiked, 8 February 2006

Twenty sixth report: The Urban Environment
Urban environment policies do not need to wait for new technologies to be developed, but instead need an institutional and social environment which encourages the uptake of existing technology
Various, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 2005

If you’re happy and you know it
Michael Savage, spiked, 28 November 2005

Stop this ‘urban regeneration’ roadshow

James Woudhuysen, spiked, 23 November 2005


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Festival Buzz

CAM: Junk Science or Genuine Alternative?

"A rigorous and invigorating exchange of ideas that transcended cliché."
Cory Doctorow, Novelist; co-editor, BoingBoing.net