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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Episode 44
The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis became most famous at the moment of its demise. The thirty-three high-rise towers built in the 1950’s we…
14 years, 1 month ago
Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators
Episode 43
“There’s a secret jazz seeping from Washington’s aging Metro escalators – those anemic metal walkways that fill our transit system…they honk and blea…
14 years, 2 months ago
Recognizably Anonymous
Episode 42
Anonymous is not group. It is not an organization. Rob Walker describes Anonymous as a “loosely affiliated and ever-changing band of individuals who……
14 years, 2 months ago
The Human-Human Interface
Episode 41
Paola Antonelli is the Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. Her most recent blockbuster show, Tal…
14 years, 3 months ago
Billy Possum
Episode 40
It’s totally unfair. Hydrox cookies came out four years before the introduction of Oreos, but Hydrox could never shake the image that it was a cheap …
14 years, 3 months ago
The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
United Nations Plaza sits in the center of San Francisco. Most people consider it a complete failure as a public space. Its central feature, at the e…
14 years, 3 months ago
Darth Vader Family Courthouse
Episode 39
It’s hard to imagine a place where more desperate and depressing drama unfolds on a daily basis than a family courthouse- custody battles, abuse, div…
14 years, 4 months ago
Sound of Sport
Episode 38
If Dennis Baxter and Bill Whiston are doing their job right, you probably don’t notice that they’re doing their job. But they are so good at doing th…
14 years, 4 months ago
The Steering Wheel
Episode 37
If I asked you to close your eyes and mimic the action of using one of the simple human interfaces of everyday life, you could probably do it. Withou…
14 years, 5 months ago
Super Bon Bonn
Episode 36
Cities are pretty robust organisms, they tend to survive even when put under tremendous stress and strain. Local industries rise and fall, people imm…
14 years, 5 months ago