@misc when I teach my UX class I ask students to add features like these to an exiting app. And they’re so used to shitty apps it’s hard for them to comprehend useful additions. It’s like pulling teeth to get them to pitch a useful new feature.
I'm reading Janette Sadik-Khan's "Street Fight" -- her book about her time as transportation head of NYC, building bike lanes, bikeshare, and pedestrian avenues
She prints this "city of the future" model from the 1939 World's Fair
Massive highways circling mammoth buildings; virtually no non-car routes; hilariously few trees
I'd love to read about: How did this become the vision of "the future" back in 1939?
What are some good books on that? Any recommendations, I'm all ears!
@clive there have been a lot of references to Le Corbusier and Robert Moses in the replies. This article in a book I edited does a good job of making sense of the cultural moment: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2811094.2811124
@clive@kellan When I wrote my dissertation on video game cities, I identified how their coordinated traffic systems only work because they’re not autonomous. And NPCs and cars are either programmed to react to one another or they’re all just fumbling in the dark. The problem is that the world isn’t full of NPCs. We’re all the player.
I find it hard to believe that the doom spiral of journalism is unstoppable. I don't know what the solution is but it feels like there has to be one. (Or many.)
@misc Some of the “fundamental” tenets of journalism need to change. Centrist journalism needs to be more editorial. (After all, everything else turned into that.)
@davesnider This is incredible! I didn't realize just how much of the graphic design work for things like logs and shirts was your doing. The Flight Club shirt holds a special place in my heart (and still in my drawer).