Sidewalk Planning and Politics
Sidewalks take us places, but they\u2019re also places of their own, where all sorts of people come together and interact. Shannon Mattern, who has written about the history of the sidewalk, claims that we\u2019re entering a new era of sidewalk planning, use, and politics, driven in large part by advances in communications, surveillance, and smart technologies.\nSarah Sharma and Rianka Singh, eds., Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan Duke University Press, 2022\nShannon Mattern, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences Princeton University Press, 2021\nThe post Sidewalk Planning and Politics appeared first on KPFA.