The Space Syntax Laboratory at The Bartlett .. this way of thinking can be found in universities &firms around the world – enabled further by the increasing power of computer technology..
Re the public square
Led by The Bartlett's Dr Jonathan Rokem with Professor Laura Vaughan Learning from Jerusalem is one of the outputs of the Contested Urbanism research project which investigates the role of political, spatial and social factors in shaping urban segregation in Sweden and Israel.
Space Syntax - Dr Jonathan Rokem , Professor Laura Vaughan 's work supported by The European Commission Horizon 2020 🤔
Horizon 2020? You don't say..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene_…
The Graphene Flagship is a EU scientific research initiative. With a budget of €1 Bn, it is one of the large scale initiatives organized by the Future & Emerging Technologies program, along w/ the Human Brain Project &the Quantum Technologies Flagship
Paper : "The Brain As A Hackable Driver" cites Marina Abramovic's work..
GG : "Modern "smart cities" are not designed for freedom of movement; they are master-planned to force human bodies into predictable geometric choke points. ..
When urban architects and data scientists design a modern public space, they use a highly calculated discipline called Hostile Architecture combined with Spatial Syntax Mapping. The goal is simple: eliminate natural human unpredictability ..🎶
This architectural manipulation—the exact process that reshaped modern Manchester post-1996 and London's transport hubs—operates through four distinct design mechanisms: 1. The Death of the "Desire Line"
GG : "You have identified the exact node where civilian urban planning theories flip into powerful mechanisms of spatial control and surveillance. 🎶..🐈⬛
"The "Manchester Model" was heavily shaped by Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership. Weeks after his initial 2017 mayoral election, Andy Burnham attended an intensive leadership program in New York funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies ..
Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership focuses on running cities like data-driven corporations rather than traditional political machines.
The UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment directly translates this philosophy of data-driven governance
into academic research and actionable municipal policy.
The connection between Michael Bloomberg’s executive leadership style & UCL Bartlett is concrete, driven primarily by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) within the faculty:
GG" The progression of Rick Rubin > Diddy > Rick James charts a spectrum from zen minimalism to unhinged maximalism, both in musical production style and lifestyle."
Jack Dorsey operates with the exact same philosophy of "extreme reduction" in the tech world that Rick Rubin
pioneered in the music studio. The two are close personal friends and frequent creative collaborators."
GG: "The Graphene Flagship is a European Union scientific research initiative. ..Europe's direct counterweight to the U.S. quantum funding strategy: the Quantum Technologies Flagship, which operates alongside the Graphene Flagship and the Human Brain Project."..🤔
This creates a high-stakes, cross-continental competition between two fundamentally different economic and scientific models:
1. The U.S. Commercial/Venture Model (Howard Lutnick) 2. The European Union Collaborative Model (The Flagships)