Alexandra Lange

The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism

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  • andrewjosephsloanehas quoted5 years ago
    all you see in your workday are your co-workers and all you see out your window is the green perimeter of your carefully tended property,” she writes, “the notion of a shared responsibility in the collective metropolitan realm is predictably distant.”
  • jessieberohas quoted9 years ago
    Can Silicon Valley invent public space as it has reinvented public life online?
  • jessieberohas quoted9 years ago
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking.’
  • Мария Журкинаhas quoted10 years ago
    Can Silicon Valley invent public space as it has reinvented public life online? If the cultish ideas about serendipity and chance encounters have any value, a new urbanism (with a small n, small u) betwixt the metropolis and the ‘burbs, can only lead to more billion-dollar ideas, more employed people, and a healthier environment. And if that doesn’t occur, maybe they have been worshipping a false, groupthink god all along.
  • Женя Ердаковаhas quoted10 years ago
    This new sort of workplace arises from a drive toward a kind of productivity that prioritises that generative potential of culture,” Crescimano writes.
  • Jenya Jacqueshas quoted10 years ago
    pauses are as important as the working periods … the opportunity for frequent respites by glancing at outdoor vistas is in accord with modern psychological theory on the nature of efficiency.
  • Jenya Jacqueshas quoted10 years ago
    to turn its back on cities and stake a claim on the suburban pastoral idyll — isolated, proprietary, verdant, and disengaged from civic space.
  • mashenkasahas quoted10 years ago
    and chance encounters have any value, a new urbanism (with a small n, small u) betwixt the metropolis and the ‘burbs, can only lead to more billion-dollar ideas, more employed people, and a healthier environment. And if that doesn’t occur, maybe they have been worshipping a false, groupthink god all along.
  • mashenkasahas quoted10 years ago
    Can Silicon Valley invent public space as it has reinvented public life online? If the cultish ideas about serendipity
  • mashenkasahas quoted10 years ago
    The companies need to talk to each other, to the city governments, and to their fellow citizens. They can build their own islands, but there’s a bigger opportunity here to re-imagine the city and suburb as an integrated, and integrating, innovation machine. Design can be beside the point.
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