Tag: public_place public_sphere network_culture place_making

  • Towards a Starbucks-urbanism?

    Over Christmas I reviewed some literature on locative media, and came across a handful of texts that addressed the changing role of the coffee house in our urban culture. Perhaps we are seeing a paradigm shift here: away from a BLVD-urbanism of public culture and towards a Starbucks Urbanism of a networked culture? Kazys Varnelis…