Day trip to Beijing – picking up a visa for travel later this month. The traffic here is predictably bad to the extent you can …
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In apartment dense Shanghai a lounger on the street, capped with a peg is not for lounging, but for airing mattresses.
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Human touch points to urban infrastructure.
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Our increasingly dynamic visual landscape.
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The social cost and benefits of placing any new infrastructure in an urban space. And the infrastructural cues that make it more or less approachable …
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ATM includes the usual touchscreen (at the bottom of the photo) and a display that updates infrequently – to the unobservant eye it could just …
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If you’ve taken a taxi in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong or Shenzhen there’s a fair chance you’ve come across a Touchmedia touch screen display that sits …
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What is worse: no emergency button, or an emergency button that doesn’t work?
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The urban etiquette for running a generator in Mazar e Sharif is to place it out by the open sewer and run a cable up …
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