Urban Thinking in Austin: Leveraging Old Buildings for New Ideas
As the fastest growing city in the U.S. (grew 5.4% between 2011-2013) Austin is changing its urban environment and demographics in a pace that is quite shocking...
Category: urban
Supporting Hip-Hop in Austin: the First Weird City Festival campaign
Remixing the famous motto of the city of Austin, the first hip-hop festival in town has been announced. The Weird City Fest will happen in September 2014 and th...
Metro Portals: Space-Time Wormholes
Walking some of my favorite cities, I have run into potential space-time gates, portals, rabbit holes or wormholes. These gates seem to have a common shape and ...
AMX and the Growing Hip Hop Movement in ATX
One of the things that surprised me when I moved to Austin four years ago was that in “the music capital of the world” so little hip hop was perform...
Enduring Analog Printing Presses
The sound of the printing press was what at first called my attention. We were walking nearby the Plaza Santo Domingo in Mexico City downtown when a percussive ...
Parking at Free Wi-Fi Spots : Coffeehouses in a Networked Communication Environment
It is not just about coffee, it is more about the space, and in particular, about the “free” and “open” public/private space. The import...