The last few months Michiel and I have spent most of our time on the organization of our The Mobile City Event 2010: ‘Designing the Hybrid City‘ – an expert meeting we organized in the context of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai together with Virtueel Platform. We are currently working on the proceedings of this event.

In the meanwhile, here is an overview of our best read articles since we started our research project in 2007:

1. review: Kevin Lynch – The Image of the City (book review)
2. Picnic 09 Report 2: The City as an Interaction Platform (conference report)
3. Towards a Myspace urbanism? (The Mobile City Essay)
4. Interview with Mark Shepard: ‘critical design’, architecture, urbanism and location based media (interview)
5. Storytelling with Locative Media: Michael Epstein’s take on ‘terratives’ (conference report)
6. Semantic Wayfinding, mental maps and the keyhole problem of GPS-navigation (lecture report)
7. Digital Cities 6: urban media / urban informatics and different notions of public space (conference report)
8. Urban Play: designing the urban landscape (exhibition review)
9. Augmented reality on the mobile: MoMo Amsterdam #11 (lecture report)
10. Scott McQuire’s The Media City (bookreview)
11. Review: “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities” by Mimi Ito et al. (book review)
12. review: Stephen Graham – The Cybercities Reader (2004) (book review)
13. Augmented Reality: its promises and shortcomings for architects (lecture report)
14. Design Approaches for the 21st Century City (The Mobile City Essay)
15. ISEA 2008: Visualizing the Real Time City (Conference Report)

And in addition some personal favourites that didn’t make it into this list:

• Cartography: the old versus the new? an evening in De Balie (lecture report)
• “How can architects relate to digital media?” TMC keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’ (The Mobile City Essay)
• Interview with Adam Greenfield on designing for urban computing (interview)
• Three philosophical questions about the ’sentient city’ – a response to the exhibition Towards the Sentient City (The Mobile City Essay)
• ISEA 2008: Locative Media Core Works & Classifications (Conference Report)

Enjoy!