Urban Village
Hello all,
Just like everybody else I have about one million other things to do... but with slightly more pressing due dates so I'll make this quick. This weeks lecture was kinda different to those we have had so far. Firstly, we had Marcus Foth as guest lecturer, which was a change, secondly the content was a little different too. Looking at the impact place, community and technology have on each other in a four part lecture was very different to the purely online worlds we have experienced so far. I found the content of this lecture interesting, but left feeling the need to ask so many questions. With particular emphasis on the Urban Village in Kelvin Grove I was wondering how necessary is it for communities to link up via the internet in order to make ties within their own home? I suppose I'm not a candidate for a project such as this, as I live in a highly social community. My street is similar to say 'Happy Days' or maybe even "Ramsay Street" if you take out the drama and instead add children under the age of 12 fjumping about, playing football on the front paths. Forgive me for sounding naive but I assumed that most people in suburbia lived like this?
But then in saying that I'm the perfect candidate for a project such as the Urban Village, as I'm a uni student, intrinsically linked to my space (the university), I can, like everyone (especially the unneighborly people in my class; just jokes ) find it difficult to take that step between person I say hi to, to friend I spend time with. So, by that denomination I would find the internet a great way to link with those I live in the same building as.
I did a little google research, and found two such examples of Urban Villages, one in Las Vegas, and the other in Leeds. I would definitely suggest taking a look at the Leeds model as it looks at jobs created though this new use of technology. I promise that next time a blog, I'll have more to talk about and include some more advanced research.
thanks for reading!
Soph
Just like everybody else I have about one million other things to do... but with slightly more pressing due dates so I'll make this quick. This weeks lecture was kinda different to those we have had so far. Firstly, we had Marcus Foth as guest lecturer, which was a change, secondly the content was a little different too. Looking at the impact place, community and technology have on each other in a four part lecture was very different to the purely online worlds we have experienced so far. I found the content of this lecture interesting, but left feeling the need to ask so many questions. With particular emphasis on the Urban Village in Kelvin Grove I was wondering how necessary is it for communities to link up via the internet in order to make ties within their own home? I suppose I'm not a candidate for a project such as this, as I live in a highly social community. My street is similar to say 'Happy Days' or maybe even "Ramsay Street" if you take out the drama and instead add children under the age of 12 fjumping about, playing football on the front paths. Forgive me for sounding naive but I assumed that most people in suburbia lived like this?
But then in saying that I'm the perfect candidate for a project such as the Urban Village, as I'm a uni student, intrinsically linked to my space (the university), I can, like everyone (especially the unneighborly people in my class; just jokes ) find it difficult to take that step between person I say hi to, to friend I spend time with. So, by that denomination I would find the internet a great way to link with those I live in the same building as.
I did a little google research, and found two such examples of Urban Villages, one in Las Vegas, and the other in Leeds. I would definitely suggest taking a look at the Leeds model as it looks at jobs created though this new use of technology. I promise that next time a blog, I'll have more to talk about and include some more advanced research.
thanks for reading!
Soph
posted by sophie at Thursday, May 18, 2006
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