Matt Webb
The surprising effectiveness of writing and rewriting
Primitive design
Micromorts
Four years of noting down my favourite words
Clues for software design in how we sketch maps of cities
Social Attention: a modest prototype in shared presence
Ancient magicians as innovation consultants
Hints towards a non-extractive economy
What the prototype tells you
aboutfeeds.com
Mutual appreciation
How would I improve RSS?
Like, just a post complaining that screens should be better
20 Minutes in Manhattan
It begins with a trip down the stairs
Thoughts on stairs
(an architectural stem cell that might transform itself into any organ for living)
The grid and its difficulties
The relative homogeneity of building
All-use environments
Sonorisms II
Zoning for diversity
Cities designed to facilitate walking
Obsessed with absolute numbers
A collective right to the city
The axis of movement
Controlled environments
Ground displaced upward
The stoop is a space of spectatorship
The Poop Press Project
Walking is a natural armature for thinking sequentially
The drift
To disappear in the crowd
Daylight should not tyrannize architecture
The 1916 Zoning Resolution
The spatial dimension of democracy
Induced demand
Greenfill
Responsibility for the sidewalk
Surrealism has become the kitsch of postmodernity
A dialogue between homogeneity and exception
If you want to build an outrageous building
The informing idea of functionalism
The Radiant City
Tower blocks and slabs
Genuinely sustainable architecture
New-urbanist projects
Touring SoHo
The question of gentrification
Non-architects
A sensitively tailored combination of modes
Flying a kiwi
Ideas for linear cities
The final architectural embellishments
Those glowing domes and minarets
Induced communication
Management and manipulation of fear
If those striped bass need a place to fuck
High-priced good times