Australian Media/Culture Journal article about “The Television” as a hypnotic medium.

Short excerpt about the creation of city spaces by pedestrians, written by Michel de Certeau in his 1984 book The Practice of Everyday Life.

First, from Anthony Vidler: Vidler_Theory of Program

Second, Rem Koolhaas’ issue of Wired.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/

These are parallel theories to where I’m imagining the program of “the mall” can go.  By utilizing the existing concrete frame and inserting the raw materials of “program”, is it possible that the program can simply grow from the structure?

We shall find out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0b90YppquE

John Stewart does a great job of interviewing Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.  You gotta give Stewart credit for trying to get past the same old rhetoric.  There are extended interviews on the same page.

A good follow-up article is here on the Washington Post.

Jon Stewart tries to talk to Arne Duncan

The blog of Erik Gerard L’Heureux, an architecture professor whose research focuses on Hydrological Urbanism and the history and theory of Urban Utopias, writes a “love story” about Singapore.