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Just saw www--arc.com via @WeAreNew_Public -- oof so many ahistorical & media literacy discipline errors in this. This is why Postman warned us: “What changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and what is being gained and lost by such changes?” 🧵
The Libertarian/anarcho capitalist bias of Silicon Valley to redefine privatized space as #publicspace is a threat to publicness, commons, democracy etc. It seems often unquestioned as so many lose contact with actual public spaces in cities. A trance in neo-feudalist simulacra.
This change in language to make virtual extended simulations of place experience be equivalent or reified over embodied real community places, is also core to anarcho-capitialism's anti-democratic eco-fascist worldviews.
Gallup Pakistan for the World Bank Group, conducted a #randomised #VirtualReality #experiment with 2,000 participants in #Karachi to investigate the relationship between #urban #design, #willingness to use #publicspace and #social #cohesion.
Read more: openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3…
Read more: openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3…
This study used 4 short #VR #experiences to investigate whether improvements in #urban #design elements of a #public #park would increase willingness to use it, and whether exposure to #diversity would improve #social #cohesion.
Read more: openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3…
Read more: openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3…
The #results indicate that #improving the physical #characteristics of the #publicspace is associated with an increase in the participants’ #attraction to the #park and their #willingness to use it
Read more: openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3…
Read more: openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3…
Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion
OpEd on our new research with Selvaraj Velayutham, @K_Aquino_ @sportinaus @westsyduics & Sarah Neal @SocStudiesShef theconversation.com/pushing-casual… … via @ConversationEDU
#pickupsport #multiculturalism #publicspace
OpEd on our new research with Selvaraj Velayutham, @K_Aquino_ @sportinaus @westsyduics & Sarah Neal @SocStudiesShef theconversation.com/pushing-casual… … via @ConversationEDU
#pickupsport #multiculturalism #publicspace
@EmmakJackson @bowltogether this might interest you Emma.
Sometimes it's the little things, the pilot projects & experiments that have the biggest city-building impact. In no particular order, here's a thread of #coollittlethings the City of #HamOnt did in 2017 ... and a shoutout to my staff who made them happen
1/ Special loading zones for musicians outside concert venues as part of our #MusicCity strategy #coollittlethings #hamont (thx to staff in Culture and Parking) 
2/ The "Mountain Climber" pilot project = free bus rides up the #NiagaraEscarpment for #cyclists #coollittlethings #hamont (thx to HSR and Transportation Planning staff) 
