{"id":849,"date":"2026-02-06T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:42:11","slug":"6-feb-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/6-feb-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Feb 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This is one of those fantasies that won\u2019t disappear. The design of \u2018cities of the future\u2019 is a techno-fantasy, i.e. the intensive embedding of technology in urban infrastructure. It is usually presented as a hybrid of \u2018enhancement\u2019 as well as a \u2018solution\u2019 \u2026 but people don\u2019t live like this \u2013 we like the ragged and the quirky, the private and the park \u2026 and above it all is the phenomenon of \u2018desire lines\u2019 \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-futuristic-tech-centred-smart-city-projects-are-destined-to-fail-274377\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-futuristic-tech-centred-smart-city-projects-are-destined-to-fail-274377\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-futuristic-tech-centred-smart-city-projects-are-destined-to-fail-274377<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desire_path\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desire_path\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desire_path<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuremagazine.com\/article\/messy-cities-planning-for-an-unplanned-city\/\">https:\/\/www.azuremagazine.com\/article\/messy-cities-planning-for-an-unplanned-city\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2026-02-03\/in-messy-cities-a-call-for-some-healthy-urban-disorder\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2026-02-03\/in-messy-cities-a-call-for-some-healthy-urban-disorder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">They, and their lackeys, just won\u2019t stop their cruel appropriation \u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/02\/palestinian-uproar-israel-plan-seize-historic-site-sebastia-west-bank\">https:\/\/theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/02\/palestinian-uproar-israel-plan-seize-historic-site-sebastia-west-bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/04\/florida-ban-west-bank-schools-state-agencies-bill\">https:\/\/theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/04\/florida-ban-west-bank-schools-state-agencies-bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those fantasies that won\u2019t disappear. The design of \u2018cities of the future\u2019 is a techno-fantasy, i.e. the intensive embedding of technology in urban infrastructure. It is usually presented as a hybrid of \u2018enhancement\u2019 as well as a \u2018solution\u2019 \u2026 but people don\u2019t live like this \u2013 we like the ragged and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/6-feb-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;6 Feb 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}