The Logistics of Distance

Geoff at BLDGBLOG has another excellent interview, this time with Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.


Quartzsite, Arizona by Kazys Varnelis

In The Logistics of Distance, the two discuss "the future of sprawl, digital cartography, the history of the computer interface, Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Media Lab, Kowloon Walled City,... RFIDs," and Quartzsite, Arizona, a "town of 5,000 in the summer that swells to up to 1.5 million in the winter due to an influx of snowbirds." Like a lot of Geoff's posts, it's lengthy but well worth the time and effort.