links for 2009-10-09

A new Fourth Wall Stu­dios project. Ash­ley Wood’s involve­ment is promising.

“The gen­er­ous atti­tude towards fail­ure that big cities afford is invalu­able-it’s how things get cre­at­ed. In a small town every­one knows about your fail­ures, so you are more care­ful about what you might attempt.” Final­ly got­ten around to read­ing Jones piece that con­nects sci­fi, comics, urban­ism and inter­ac­tion design. Being fas­ci­nat­ed by cities myself, this was a treat.

‘”I learned to dri­ve in order to read Los Ange­les in the orig­i­nal,” said the great 20th Cen­tu­ry archi­tec­tur­al crit­ic Reyn­er Ban­ham, and the sys­tems we’re talk­ing about are orders of mag­ni­tude more com­plex than mere cars and freeways.’