Mattern, Hearing Urban Infrastructures, Umea

7/30/2019 Mattern, Hearing Urban Infrastructures, Umea

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Hearing Urban InfrastructuresA Sonic Archaeology of the Media City

Shannon Mattern | The New Schoolwordsinspace.net | @shannonmattern


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Iwan Baan


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Verizons headquarters @ 140 West Street after Hurricane Sandy,

via the Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204707104578091171538491386.htmlhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204707104578091171538491386.html


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Con Edison workers. Photo by Buck Ennis.Via Crains New York
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20121111/ECONOMY/311119969http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20121111/ECONOMY/311119969http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20121111/ECONOMY/311119969http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20121111/ECONOMY/311119969http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20121111/ECONOMY/311119969


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Various SimCity Disasters; via GhostStorm
http://ghoststorm.co.uk/simcity-disasters-101-protection-and-prevention/http://ghoststorm.co.uk/simcity-disasters-101-protection-and-prevention/


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Via Michael Chen + Justin Snider, Signal Space Urban Omnibus
http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/


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Agbogbloshie dump, in Accra, Ghana. Andrew McConnell


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Nicole Starosielski, Surfacing


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ViaVimeo
http://vimeo.com/56351576http://vimeo.com/56351576


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Via CellCrypt
http://www.cellcrypt.com/solutions/satellite-solutionhttp://www.cellcrypt.com/solutions/satellite-solution


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A city...is not a flattenablegraph. In a city, networksoverlap upon othernetworks(Friedrich Kittler, The City is a Medium,New

Literary History27:4 (1996): 719)

Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum,Manhattan Timeformations, 2000

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Via DeviantArt
http://quake-and-bake.deviantart.com/art/Quad-Antenna-56872588http://quake-and-bake.deviantart.com/art/Quad-Antenna-56872588


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Via Archaeology Excavations:http://bit.ly/HJpck0


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Via National Park Service,Tumaccori Dig, 1935


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Via igic.org


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Via MakingMaps.net


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Via LNL
http://www.lnl.com/esbantennas.htmhttp://www.lnl.com/esbantennas.htm


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ViaThe World Around Us
http://bit.ly/HVgxQghttp://bit.ly/HVgxQg


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Peruvian Geoglyphs;
http://bit.ly/HUOmhXhttp://bit.ly/HUOmhXhttp://bit.ly/HUOmhXhttp://bit.ly/HUOmhX


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Ben Millen, iPhone Deconstruction [/Archaeology]
http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155


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Via University of

Tennesse


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Harvard GSD, Landscape Futures


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Telegraph Wires + Train Tracks;Fiber Optic Cables in Parisian Sewers


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Serlio, Primo Libro, 1551; Paju Book City, South Korea, Phase 2 under construction


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Alhambra Inscriptions, via Lucio Quadrio on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaquadrio/8414457854/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaquadrio/8414457854/


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Cities are a product of time. They are the molds in

which mens lifetimes have cooled and congealed,giving lasting shape, by way of art, to moments that

would otherwise vanish with the living and leave nomeans of renewal or wider participation behindthem. In the city, time becomes visible: buildingsand monuments and public ways, more open thanthe written record, more subject to the gaze ofmany men than the scattered artifacts of thecountryside, leave an imprint upon the minds even

of the ignorant or the indifferent.

Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities(New York: Harcourt BraceJovanovich, 1938[1966])


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Daguerreotype viaArchaeographer
http://www.archaeographer.com/Portraits/Daguerreotypes-Series-One/7279575_qwqzdR/467979939_noaQihttp://www.archaeographer.com/Portraits/Daguerreotypes-Series-One/7279575_qwqzdR/467979939_noaQi


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Via MakingMaps.net


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Vitruvius, ca. 8070 BCca. 15 BC, on theatre construction;ViaWhipple Library@ Cambridge
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/library/universalharmony/martianus.htmlhttp://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/library/universalharmony/martianus.html


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the city, as it develops, becomes the center of a

network of communications: the gossip of the wellor the town pump, the talk at the pub or the

washboard, the proclamations of messenger andheralds, the confidences of friends, the rumors ofthe exchange and the market, the guardedintercourse of scholars all these are centralactivities of the city. In this respect the permissivesize of the city partly varies with the velocity andthe effective range of communication.

Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities(New York: Harcourt BraceJovanovich, 1938[1966])


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Testing the ringing rocks @

Stonehenge; Via LandscapePerception
http://www.landscape-perception.com/archaeoacoustics/http://www.landscape-perception.com/archaeoacoustics/http://www.landscape-perception.com/archaeoacoustics/http://www.landscape-perception.com/archaeoacoustics/


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View of the Acropolis from the Pnyxvia WallyG on Flickr
http://bit.ly/Lcb8Fdhttp://bit.ly/Lcb8Fd


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OWS in Union Square; Via Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efgg45jekk/occupy-wall-street-take-union-square/http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efgg45jekk/occupy-wall-street-take-union-square/


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Via http://tallinnsoundmap.wordpress.com/


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Mechanics Hall, Boston


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Avery Fisher, via Fortune, 1946


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Richard Pare, View of the Shabolovka Radio Tower, Moscow,Russia, 2000; Canadian Centre for Architecture Collection


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Via LNL
http://www.lnl.com/esbantennas.htmhttp://www.lnl.com/esbantennas.htm


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Via MeMenis
http://www.mcmenamins.com/galleries/olytimelinehttp://www.mcmenamins.com/galleries/olytimeline


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Dhaka


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CCA Collection


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Hugh Ferriss


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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929Willis Polk, Hallidie Building, 1917-18


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Via http://bit.ly/GRXrFj


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Via http://bit.ly/JScmPa


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Favelas, Rio, via dreamindy on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreamindly/2440538959/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreamindly/2440538959/


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Via
http://carlyns.net/design/cOSS.htmlhttp://carlyns.net/design/cOSS.html


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CCA Collection


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Via http://bit.ly/GRXrFj


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Kings Cross Station fire, 1987;via Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/17/kings-cross-fire-anniversary_n_2149461.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/17/kings-cross-fire-anniversary_n_2149461.html


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Via TransportationNation.org
http://narrative.ly/popular/silencing-the-subway/


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http://narrative.ly/popular/silencing-the-subway/


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Arup, acoustic engineering + sound-light installation in transit tunnel, Leeds, UK


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Concrete ears constructed on the south coast on England in the20s to detect the sound of approaching enemy aircraft


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Via http://bit.ly/ArwWxc


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Controversy over the ice cream truck jingleVia NYTimes


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