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		<title>Academic course: &#8220;The Media City&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in an earlier post, I have been developing a new course at Utrecht University, called &#8220;The Media City&#8221;. It is a course for bachelor 2 students and pre-masters. The program has been set up around a number of guest lecturers, who talk about several &#8216;media city&#8217; topics from their own expertise. Below [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I wrote in <a href="http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/2011/09/01/some-upcoming-events-activities-i-am-working-on/">an earlier post</a>, I have been developing a new course at Utrecht University, called &#8220;The Media City&#8221;. It is a course for bachelor 2 students and pre-masters. The program has been set up around a number of guest lecturers, who talk about several &#8216;media city&#8217; topics from their own expertise. Below some more information about the course (guest speakers + literature list). The course is in Dutch, but all of the literature is in English.</p>
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<a title="Download introductory presentation (PDF, 2.3 MB)" href="http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/presentatie_hoorcollege_week1_web.pdf"><img src="http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/themediacity_2011-2012.png" alt="themediacity_2011-2012.png" width="480" height="360" /></a></strong></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/presentatie_hoorcollege_week1_web.pdf">Download introductory presentation</a> (PDF, 2.3 MB in Dutch)</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Studiehandleiding_NMAD_2011-2012.pdf">Download full course instructions</a> (PDF, 220 KB in Dutch)</em></p>
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<p><strong>Course schedule:</strong></p>
<p>week1, Sept 22 &#8211; Introduction (Michiel de Lange)</p>
<p>week2, Sept 29 &#8211; ‘Hybrid space’: the relation between digital and physical space (<a href="http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?personid=5495">Eric Kluitenberg</a>)</p>
<p>week3, Oct 6 &#8211; New media and urban publicness (<a href="http://www.martijndewaal.nl/?page_id=10">Martijn de Waal</a>)</p>
<p>week4, Oct 13 &#8211; Privacy &amp; surveillance in the media city (<a href="http://www.sanderflight.nl">Sander Flight</a>)</p>
<p>week5, Oct 20 &#8211; Media art and the urban experience (<a href="http://aaaan.net/hub/annet-dekker/">Annet Dekker</a>)</p>
<p>week6, Oct 27 &#8211; Urban play &amp; gamification (<a href="http://whatsthehubbub.nl/blog">Kars Alfrink</a>)</p>
<p>week7, Nov 3 &#8211; eParticipation and co-design: designing cities with new media (<a href="http://www.verbeterdebuurt.nl/blog/">Carl Lens</a>)</p>
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<p><strong>Course literature:</strong></p>
<h2 class="western" align="justify"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>week1 &#8211; Introductie De Mediastad</strong></span></span></span></h2>
<p><span id="more-583"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">- Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., &amp; Williams, J. M. (2003). “Making good arguments”. Chapter 7 in: The craft of research(2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago press. (pp. 114-123) <a href="http://boelter.krischeonline.com/lispdf/pdf/Booth">http://boelter.krischeonline.com/lispdf/pdf/Booth</a><a href="http://boelter.krischeonline.com/lispdf/pdf/Booth%20W%20et%20al%202003%20ch%2007.pdf">W et al 2003 ch 07.pdf</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Algemene voorbereiding op hoe je een sterk academisch argument neerzet in een debat. Booth et al. beschrijven op toegankelijke wijze vijf regels waaraan een goed argument voldoet. Vooral bedoeld voor geschreven argumentatie maar ook goed bruikbaar voor verbale discussies. [Deze tekst hoef je niet te bespreken voor de weekopdracht].</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Hill, D. (2008). The street as platform. City of Sound weblog, <a href="http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/02/the-street-as-p.html">http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/02/the-street-as-p.html</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Deze tekst biedt een zeer toegankelijke blik op wat er gebeurt nu de stad in toenemende mate doorsneden raakt met allerlei digitale mediatechnologieën. De tekst schetst twee scenario’s en roept een aantal vragen op waarover gedebatteerd kan worden.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a Way of Life. The American Journal of Sociology, 44(1), 1-24. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2768119">http://www.jstor.org/pss/2768119</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Deze klassieke tekst gaat over de vraag: wat is een stad? De gegeven definitie fungeert als achtergrond waartegen veel andere teksten gelezen kunnen worden.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Graham, S. (2004). The Cybercities Reader. London; New York: Routledge. Introduction: “From dreams of transcendence to the remediation of urban life” (pp. 3-23). Download van: <a href="http://boelter.krischeonline.com/lispdf/pdf/Graham%20S%202004%20in%20Graham%20S%20ed%202004.pdf">http://boelter.krischeonline.com/lispdf/pdf/Graham%20S%202004%20in%20Graham%20S%20ed%202004.pdf</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Deze introductie biedt een overzicht van verschuivingen in hoe de relatie tussen stad en digitale media geconceptualiseerd is.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Optioneel:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Townsend, A. (2000). Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism. Journal of Urban Technology, 7(2), 85-104. <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/713684114">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/713684114</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Een invloedrijk vroeg artikel over de invloed van mobiele technologieën op stedelijkheid.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>week2 &#8211; ‘Hybrid space’: de relatie tussen digitaal en fysiek</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- De Souza e Silva, A. (2006). From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces. Space and culture, 9(3), 261-278. <a href="http://sac.sagepub.com/content/9/3/261.full.pdf+html">http://sac.sagepub.com/content/9/3/261.full.pdf+html</a> (alternatieve link: <a href="http://tvdigital.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/mobile-2006-adriana-silva.pdf">http://tvdigital.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/mobile-2006-adriana-silva.pdf</a>).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? In dit artikel behandelt De Souza het begrip ‘hybrid space’ als de versmelting van fysieke en digitale ruimte. Ze stelt in reactie op Manovich dat ‘hybrid space’ niet begrepen moet worden als extra laag bovenop de fysieke ruimte maar als wederzijds constituerend.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Kluitenberg, E. (2006). The network of waves: living and acting in a hybrid space. Open, 11, (pp. 6-16). <a href="http://www.skor.nl/download.php?id=3231">http://www.skor.nl/download.php?id=3231</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Kluitenberg gaat met name in op veranderingen in sociaal gedrag die mogelijk gemaakt worden door de hybridisering van stedelijke ruimte en digitale mediatechnologieën. Ook gaat Kluitenberg in op strategische vormen van agency in hybrid space.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Ito, M., Okabe, D., &amp; Anderson, K. (2009). Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places. In R. S. Ling &amp; S. W. Campbell (Eds.), The reconstruction of space and time: mobile communication practices(pp. 67-87). New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers. Te downloaden van: <a href="http://www.itofisher.com/mito/portableobjects.pdf">http://www.itofisher.com/mito/portableobjects.pdf</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Ito et al. presenteren een op veldwerk gebaseerde typologie van drie concrete manieren waarop stedelingen met draagbare technologieën ‘interfacen’ met de stad.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Optioneel (sterk aanbevolen!):</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Simmel, Georg (1903) The Metropolis and Mental Life. In: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, eds. The Blackwell City Reader. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002, (pp. 11-19). <a href="http://www.esperdy.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Simmel_21.pdf">http://www.esperdy.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Simmel_21.pdf</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Dit een andere must-read actuele klassieker over stedelijkheid. De tekst vertoont sterke gelijkenissen met de tekst van Louis Wirth, maar zoomt verder in op stedelijkheid als socio/psychologisch fenomeen. Simmel wijst erop dat de moderne stedelijke ervaring gemediëerd is (middels geld en kloktijd) en in die zin al veel langer ‘hybride’ is.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>week3 &#8211; Nieuwe media en stedelijke openbaarheid</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Holmes, D. (2005). Communication theory: media, technology and society. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE. (pp. 67-82)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Holmes geeft een overzicht van de discussies rond computer mediated communication (CMC) en publicness, deels in relatie tot de stad. Holmes beperkt zich tot discussies over ‘cyberspace’ en besteedt geen aandacht aan mobiele media.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Frei, H., &amp; Böhlen, M. (2010). Micropublicplaces. In O. Khan, T. Scholz &amp; M. Shepard (Eds.), Situated Technologies Pamphlet series. <a href="http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST6-MicroPublicPlaces.pdf">http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST6-MicroPublicPlaces.pdf</a>. (eerste gedeelte, pp. 12-28).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? De auteurs bespreken twee belangrijke denkers over (stedelijke) openbaarheid &#8211; Arendt en Latour &#8211; en verbinden dit thema met actuele discussies over de mediastad.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- De Waal, M. (2011). The Urban Culture of Sentient Cities: From an Internet of Things to a Public Sphere of Things. In M. Shepard (Ed.), Sentient city: ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. <a href="http://www.martijndewaal.nl/?p=236">http://www.martijndewaal.nl/?p=236</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? De Waal bespreekt kort enkele klassieke denkers over openbaarheid en voegt een actuele visie toe vanuit de discussie over ubiquitous computing.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Optioneel:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Graham, S., &amp; Aurigi, A. (1997). Virtual cities, social polarization, and the crisis in urban public space. Journal of Urban Technology, 4(1), 19-52. <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10630739708724546">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10630739708724546</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? In dit wat oudere artikel bespreken de auteurs een actuele discussie uit die tijd, namelijk de mogelijkheid van een online publieke sfeer geënt op stedelijke principes. Interessant voor een historische achtergrond van de discussie.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- De Waal, M. (2008) “Locative media and the city – from BLVD-urbanism towards MySpace urbanism” In: Vodafone Receiver Magazine. <a href="http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/locative-media-and-the-city">http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/locative-media-and-the-city</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? De Waal benoemt een aantal nieuwe kwesties die gepaard gaan met de opkomst van technologieën in het stedelijk landschap.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>week4 &#8211; Privacy &amp; surveillance in de mediastad</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Crang, M., &amp; Graham, S. (2007). Sentient Cities: Ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space. Information, Communication &amp; Society, 10(6), 789-817. <a href="http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13691180701750991">http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13691180701750991</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? In dit artikel zetten de auteurs uiteen hoe nieuwe technologieën verbonden zijn met pogingen om steden te controleren en tot ‘frictie-vrije’ consumptie-zones om te toveren. Ook besteden ze aandacht aan pogingen van media-activisten om hier tegenin te gaan.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Jacobs, J. (1992). The death and life of great American cities(Vintage Books ed.). New York: Vintage Books (originally published in 1961). Hoofdstuk 2: “The uses of sidewalks: safety” (pp. 29-54) <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Jacobs%20Part%201.pdf">http://www.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Jacobs Part 1.pdf</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? In deze klassieker laat Jane Jacobs zien dat surveillance een intrinsiek onderdeel is van stedelijke interacties, een manier om met vreemden te kunnen samenleven. Dit nuanceert de instinctieve reflex dat surveillance iets inherent ‘slechts’ zou zijn.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Mann, S., Nolan, J., &amp; Wellman, B. (2003). Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments. Surveillance &amp; Society, 1(3), 331-355. <a href="http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(3)/sousveillance.pdf.">http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(3)/sousveillance.pdf.</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Het concept sousveillance is bedacht om aan te geven dat hedendaagse vormen van surveillance niet langer institutioneel zijn maar veeleer gedistribueerd en peer-to-peer. Dit artikel ziet sousveillance als mogelijkheid tot ‘empowerment’ van onderaf.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Optioneel (aanbevolen i.v.m. tussentijdse opdracht 2):</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Deleuze, G. (1990). Postscript on the Societies of Control. L&#8217;autre journal. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/netzkritik/societyofcontrol.html">http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/netzkritik/societyofcontrol.html</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? In dit korte artikel signaleert Deleuze de opkomst van een nieuw type controle. Dit is de opvolger van Foucault’s institutionele surveillance in ‘disciplinary societies’.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Solove, Daniel (2005) “Of Privacy and Poop: Norm Enforcement Via the Blogosphere”. (June 30, 2005). <a href="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2005/06/of-privacy-and-poop-norm-enforcement.html">http://balkin.blogspot.com/2005/06/of-privacy-and-poop-norm-enforcement.html</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Krim, Jonathan (2005) “Subway Fracas Escalates Into Test Of the Internet&#8217;s Power to Shame”. In: The Washington Post (July 7, 2005). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070601953.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070601953.html</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Deze korte online artikeltjes over sousveillance als nieuwe schandpaal biedt een mooi contrast met de empowerment-stelling van Mann et al.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>week5 &#8211; Mediakunst en stedelijke ervaring</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>-</strong> Tuters, M., &amp; Varnelis, K. (2006). Beyond Locative Media. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://networkedpublics.org/locative_media/beyond_locative_media">http://networkedpublics.org/locative_media/beyond_locative_media</a>.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? In dit artikel wordt een aantal ‘locative media’ projecten besproken, kunst die gebruik maakt van GPS locatie-bepaling om ruimtelijke ervaringen te ‘mappen’.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>-</strong> Benjamin, W. (2008). The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility (second version). In M. W. Jennings, B. Doherty, T. Y. Levin &amp; E. F. N. Jephcott (Eds.), The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media(pp. 19-55). Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. <a href="http://www.arts.rpi.edu/century/nmt11/Benjamin%20Art%20in%20Age%20of%20Its%20Reproducability.pdf">http://www.arts.rpi.edu/century/nmt11/Benjamin%20Art%20in%20Age%20of%20Its%20Reproducability.pdf</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Dit is een klassieke tekst over de opkomst van het elektronische kunstwerk en de verschuiving in stedelijke ervaring.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>-</strong> Paul, C. (2008). Digital art (2nd ed.). London ; New York: Thames &amp; Hudson. (pp. 216-237) “Technologies of the future: Mobile and locative media”.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Dit hoofdstuk biedt een overzicht en bespreking van een aantal locatieve media kunstprojecten.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Video’s (te vertonen tijdens werkcollege):</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Mark Shepard &#8211; Sentient City Survival Kit (5 min.) <a href="http://survival.sentientcity.net/">http://survival.sentientcity.net</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom zien? Middels hypothetische ontwerpinterventies poogt Shepard de discussie rondom stedelijke technologieën aan te zwengelen en publiek te maken. Dit is tevens een goede voorbereiding voor de eindopdracht.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">[afhankelijk van de tijd]</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Dunne &amp; Raby over ‘critical design’ (7 min.) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bns4qcRRYY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bns4qcRRYY</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- RedSheep – Critique on Critical Design (5 min.) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTTamBXo_w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTTamBXo_w</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>week6 &#8211; Urban play &amp; gamification</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>-</strong> Licoppe, C., &amp; Inada, Y. (2010). Locative media and cultures of mediated proximity: the case of the Mogi game location-aware community. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(4), 691-709. <a href="http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=d13307">http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=d13307</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? In dit artikel bespreken de auteurs hoe de Japanse locatieve game Mogi de ervaring van sociale nabijheid bemiddeld via de connectie met fysieke plaats.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- McGonigal, J. (2010). Gaming can make a better world. TED Talk. <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html</a>. (20 min.).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom zien? McGonigal is een van de voorvechters van het toepassen van game-principes op problemen uit het ‘echte leven’.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Juul, Jesper (2011) “Gamification Backlash Roundup”. Blogpost op: <a href="http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/gamification-backlash-roundup">http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/gamification-backlash-roundup</a> (+ blog comments!)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Game-onderzoeker Jesper Juul geeft hier een overzicht van recent werk over ‘gamification’. De comments op zijn blog zijn een waardevolle aanvulling en een voorbeeld hoe een online discussie van behoorlijk academisch niveau zich ontwikkelt.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Optioneel:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">-Debord, Guy-Ernest (1956, 1958), “A User’s Guide to Détournement” + “Theory of the Dérive”. Te vinden op <a href="http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm">http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? De Situationisten zijn invloedrijk gebleken voor latere mediakunst en speltheorie. Voor hen was spel een subversieve tactiek. De teksten bieden een interessant tegenwicht aan ‘gamification’, waarbij spel voor heel andere doeleinden het alledaagse leven ingetrokken wordt.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Bogost, Ian (2011) “Gamification is bullshit”. Blogpost op: <a href="http://www.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml">http://www.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml</a> (+ blog comments!)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Game-onderzoeker Ian Bogost neemt provocatief stelling (maar slaat hij niet door?)…</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Chaplin, Heather (2011) “I Don&#8217;t Want To Be a Superhero: Ditching reality for a game isn&#8217;t as fun as it sounds”. Blogpost op: <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2289302/pagenum/all">http://www.slate.com/id/2289302/pagenum/all</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Prima omschrijving van ‘gamification’, plus enkele discussiepunten:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">“The basic idea arises from how engaged people are when they play games, even if they&#8217;re doing mundane things &#8230;. If we make the world more like a game, the thinking goes, we can harness all that energy to solve real-world problems.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>week7 &#8211; e-Participatie en co-design: stedelijk ontwerp met nieuwe media</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Vajjhala, S. (2005). Integrating GIS and participatory mapping in community development planning. Presented at 25th Annual ESRI User Conference, San Diego, CA, July 25–29. <a href="http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc05/papers/pap1622.pdf">http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc05/papers/pap1622.pdf</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Vajjhala onderzoekt hoe ‘participatory mapping’ bewoners een stem geeft in het plannen van hun leefomgeving. Hierbij richt ze zich vooral op hoe mensen leven i.p.v. uitsluitend waar ze leven.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Gordon, E., Schirra, S., &amp; Hollander, J. (2011). Immersive planning: a conceptual model for designing public participation with new technologies. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 38(3), 505-519. <a href="http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b37013">http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b37013</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? De auteurs beschrijven hoe digitale media – met name social media, mapping en videogames &#8211; een rol kunnen spelen in het plannen van steden met een participerende rol voor burgers.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Shepard, M. (Ed.). (2011). Sentient city: ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Shepard is opgeleid als architect en stelt de vraag hoe deze professie de invloed van nieuwe media in het stedelijk domein kan incorporeren.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Optioneel:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">- Blogpost “Beyond the ‘smart city’” : <a href="http://urbanscale.org/2011/02/17/beyond-the-smart-city/">http://urbanscale.org/2011/02/17/beyond-the-smart-city/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="left">Waarom lezen? Dit is een kritiek op het ‘smart city’ paradigma dat sterk in opkomst is. Steden en technologiebedrijven (o.a. IBM, Cisco, HP, Philips en Fraunhofer) gaan samenwerkingen aan om stedelijke processen efficiënter te organiseren. Sensor- en netwerktechnologieën helpen om energie- en watervoorziening, transport en logistiek, en lucht- en milieukwaliteit te meten en optimaliseren. De hoop is dat hiermee de kwaliteit van leven vooruit gaat.</p>
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		<title>Review @themobilecity: Aurigi &amp; De Cindio (2008) &#8211; Augmented urban spaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted this review on The Mobile City blog yesterday: Aurigi, A., &#38; De Cindio, F. (2008). Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic city. Aldershot: Ashgate. (The introduction is a free read from the website). This book from 2008 had been on my desk for quite some time but finally I got around [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&amp;calcTitle=1&amp;title_id=7661&amp;edition_id=10636"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2286" title="augmented-urban-spaces-articulating-the-physical-and-electronic-city" src="http://www.themobilecity.nl/wp-content/uploads/augmented-urban-spaces-articulating-the-physical-and-electronic-city.jpeg" alt="" width="197" height="300" /></a>I posted this review on The Mobile City blog yesterday:</p>
<p>Aurigi, A., &amp; De Cindio, F. (2008). <em><a href="http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&amp;calcTitle=1&amp;title_id=7661&amp;edition_id=10636">Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic city</a></em>. Aldershot: Ashgate.<br />
(The introduction is a free read from the website).</p>
<p>This book from 2008 had been on my desk for quite some time but finally I got around to do a review. It is listed in a recent overview of <a href="http://www.urenio.org/2011/01/16/digital-intelligent-smart-cities-ten-years-books/">a decade of writing about digital cities</a>. Three years earlier, one of the editors Alessandro Aurigi wrote the monograph “Making the Digital City: The Early Shaping of Urban Internet Space”.</p>
<p>The main question of this edited book is how enriched media environments, ubiquitous computing, mobile and wireless communication technologies, and the internet are modifying city living and the fruition of urban spaces. A familiar stance by now, the editors argue against a clear boundary between the digital and the physical:</p>
<blockquote><p>“in the augmented city, ‘virtual’ and ‘physical’ spaces are no longer two separate dimensions, but just parts of a continuum, of a whole. The physical and the digital environment have come to define each other and concepts such as public space and “third place”, identity and knowledge, citizenship and public participation are all inevitably affected by the shaping of the reconfigured, augmented urban space” (p. 1).</p></blockquote>
<p>The stated aim to strive for an interdisciplinary “contamination of perspectives” is attested to by the fact that Aurigi is an architect/urban planner and De Cindio a computer scientist. The contributing authors are a mixed bunch in both disciplinary and cultural background, although most have an academic affiliation. Architects, urbanists and geographers go side by side with new media and information- and communication researchers. Contributors hail from (or work in) Italy, USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, South Korea, UK, and South Africa.</p>
<p>The book is structured in three main sections: <em>Augmented Spaces</em>, <em>Augmenting Communities</em>, and <em>Planning Challenges in the Augmented City</em>. I will not discuss all contributions but pick out those that I found most interesting.</p>
<p>Continue reading on <a href="http://www.themobilecity.nl/2011/03/01/review-aurigi-de-cindio-2008-augmented-urban-spaces/">The Mobile City blog &gt;&gt;</a></p>
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		<title>Presentation &#8216;The Hybrid City&#8217; @PULS Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week on October 28 2010 I gave a talk about &#8216;The Hybrid City&#8217; for <a href="http://www.madlab.nl/?p=719&amp;lang=en">PULS</a> at <a href="http://www.lacittamobile.nl/">La Citta Mobile</a> in Eindhoven during the <a href="http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/event.php?id=1699">Dutch Design Week</a>. The event was organized by <a href="http://www.madlab.nl/?p=749&amp;lang=en">MAD</a> emergent art center. Below my presentation slides (PDF 1,4 MB).</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[this post also appears at The Mobile City weblog] How can architects relate to digital media? The Mobile City keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’: outcomes and further thoughts written by Michiel de Lange &#38; Martijn de Waal Introducing the main questions What do developments in digital media have to do with architecture? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[this post also appears at <a href="http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/12/06/how-can-architects-relate-to-digital-media-tmc-keynote-at-the-%E2%80%98day-of-the-young-architect%E2%80%99/">The Mobile City weblog</a>]</p>
<p><strong>How can architects relate to digital media?</strong></p>
<p>The Mobile City keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’: outcomes and further thoughts</p>
<p><i>written by Michiel de Lange &amp; Martijn de Waal</i></p>
<p><strong>Introducing the main questions</strong></p>
<p>What do developments in digital media have to do with architecture? And how should architects and urbanists relate to developments in new media? The Netherlands Architecture Institute (<a href="http://en.nai.nl/">NAi</a>) and Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (<a href="http://www.bna.nl/en/home">BNA</a>) invited The Mobile City to address that question for the yearly ‘<a href="http://www.bna.nl/nl/netwerken,bna-jonge-architectendag-nai">Day of the Young Architect</a>’, on November 7th 2009 in the NAi in Rotterdam. This day was themed &#8216;the virtual&#8217;, and was organized as part of the overarching <a href="http://www.iabr.nl/NL/open_city/programma/week4-8nov.php">&#8216;connectivity&#8217; cluster</a> during the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (<a href="http://www.iabr.nl/NL/open_city">IABR</a>).</p>
<p>We gladly accepted this challenge, since this very issue was one of the main reasons we founded The Mobile City two years ago. After all, as the boundaries between physical and digital spaces blur, this should have profound consequences not only for new media developers but also for those professionals who traditionally deal with physical spaces. We surely did not expect this to be already obvious for most architects. But the fact that only half of the audience raised their hands when asked by moderator JaapJan Berg whether architects should deal with digital media in their profession showed <a href="http://www.kampman.nl/blog/2009/11/young-architects-not-that-virtual-yet/">there is still some way to go</a>.</p>
<p>This report contains the main argument of our talk. But it also presents some additional reflections, and is an attempt to take our argument further than we did at the NAi/BNA day. We address the following questions: what position can architects, planners and urbanists take in their design profession vis-a-vis new media? Why should they bother with new media in the first place? What are the challenges they face? And what are future directions and chances for these professions?</p>
<p>In answering these questions, we make a strong plea for an attitude of ‘critical engagement’. This posits architects should neither ignore nor completely embrace digital media. Rather we would urge them to think of themselves as designers who primarily shape social processes, and only second as designers who shape spatial forms. Which social processes underly new commissions? What kind of activities, social interactions or exclusions should a new project encourage or discourage? How can these be shaped through spatial forms? And what roles do digital media play in this? We think architects shouldn&#8217;t just build an urban screen just because you can, or the <a href="http://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus/bix-media-facade">Kunsthaus in Graz</a> has one too. Rather they should start by asking: what kind of social processes do we want to provoke or hope to avoid? Can an urban screen indeed contribute to these processes or will it disturb them? What other disciplines do we need to invite to the table to meaningfully program an urban screen so that it goes beyond mere window dressing and indeed enhances the project?</p>
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		<title>Review: Stephen Graham – The Cybercities Reader (2004)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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<p>I&#8217;ve written a review of Stephen Graham&#8217;s &#8220;The Cybercities Reader&#8221; (2004) at The Mobile City. <a href="http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/08/08/review-stephen-graham-the-cybercities-reader-2004/">Go there &gt;&gt;</a></p>
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		<title>Review @themobilecity: Kevin Lynch &#8220;The Image of the City&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a new effort of The Mobile City to compile an ever-expanding overview of literature relevant to our themes, I have written up a review of this oldie-goldie published in 1960. Read review at www.themobilecity.nl &#62;&#62;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As part of a new effort of <a href="http://www.themobilecity.nl/">The Mobile City</a> to compile an ever-expanding <a href="http://www.themobilecity.nl/literature/">overview of literature</a> relevant to our themes, I have written up a review of this oldie-goldie published in 1960.<br />
<img title="lynch-imageofthecity.jpg" src="http://martijnsdepot.com/mobilecity/wp-content/uploads/lynch-imageofthecity.jpg" alt="lynch-imageofthecity.jpg" width="320" height="320" /></p>
<p>Read review <a href="http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/05/08/review-kevin-lynch-the-image-of-the-city/">at www.themobilecity.nl &gt;&gt;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the oldest terms to think about the influence of both transport and communication technologies on the experience of time and space is “time-space compression”. This notion expresses the sense that the experience of time passing by is accelerated while the importance of distance diminished. Geographer David Harvey made the term famous, although it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the oldest terms to think about the influence of both transport and communication technologies on the experience of time and space is “time-space compression”. This notion expresses the sense that the experience of time passing by is accelerated while the importance of distance diminished. Geographer David Harvey made the term <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-space_compression">famous</a>, although it has been in use much longer. Sociologist John Urry quotes an anonymous English commentator who in 1839 says that the new railway system were “having the effect of ‘compressing’ time and space” and that “distances were thus annihilated” (Urry 2007: 96). This latter expression is made famous by Karl Marx who talked about “the annihilation of space by time”. At the same time commenters (e.g. Nigel Thrift) have noted that the immensive speed-up of transport and communication technologies not only lead to shrinkage but also to enlargement and widening of space and time, since people could now get a sense of other worlds beyond their previously known local one and simultaneous presence with people elsewhere.</p>
<p>Recently I stumbled across two examples that explore its very edges. The first is a fascinating map of <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227041.500-wheres-the-remotest-place-on-earth.html">the remotest place on earth</a>.</p>
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<p><i>The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. The model combines information on terrain and access to road, rail and river networks. It also considers how factors such as altitude, steepness of terrain and hold-ups like border crossings slow travel. Plotted onto a map, the results throw up surprises. First, less than 10 per cent of the world’s land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city. What’s more, many areas considered remote and inaccessible are not as far from civilisation as you might think. In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20 per cent of the land is more than two days from a city &#8211; around the same proportion as Canada’s Quebec province.</i></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20227041.500/mg20227041.500-1_1000.jpg"><img src="http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/worldmap-timetocity.jpg" width="480" height="236" alt="source: http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20227041.500/mg20227041.500-1_1000.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>(<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20227041.500/mg20227041.500-1_1000.jpg">image source</a>)</p>
<p>The map is created by researchers at the European Commission’s <a href="http://bioval.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/index.htm">Joint Research Centre</a> in Ispra, Italy, and the <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/">World Bank</a>. It is part of a research that measures urbanisation from the new perspective of travel time to 8500 major cities. Key findings are:</p>
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<li>we passed the point at which more than half the world’s populations live in cities around the turn of the Millennium (2000) &#8211; much earlier than the 2007/8 estimate;</li>
<li>more than half of the world’s population lives less than 1 hour from a major city, but the breakdown is 85% of the developed world and only 35% of the developing world;</li>
<li>95% of the world’s population is concentrated on just 10% of the world’s land; but</li>
<li>only 10% of the world’s land area is classified as “remote” or more than 48 hours from a large city.</li>
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<p>The map beautifully shows just how incredibly connected the world has become &#8211; not only via telecommunications but also by physical mobility &#8211; and how even the remotest regions are now closely tied to the urban sphere. The fact that 10% of the world is more than 48 hours from a large city raises questions about the definition of ‘urban’, as states the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/downloads/jrc_081217_newsrelease_travel_times_en.pdf">news release</a>. More nice <a href="http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2009/0,,contentMDK:21953945~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:4231059,00.html">maps here</a>.</p>
<p>A second example is the Reuters news that a Nepali telecom firm is <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-39209720090423">planning to expand its mobile phone service</a> to the top of the Mount Everest. The Mount Everest is one of the busiest high mountains. Each year hundreds of climbers attempt to reach the summit. Until now they were dependent on expensive satellite telephones to call family and friends from the top. Now even the highest peak on earth will become connected to the worldwide communication networks.</p>
<p>The question of course remains whether this potential for mobility and connection to &#8216;the global&#8217; actually contributes to a worldwide &#8220;imagined community&#8221;. What this map does not indicate is that mobility and connections are unequally divided. Doreen Massey has called this &#8220;the power-geometry of time-space compression&#8221; (see <a href="http://onedaysculpture.org.nz/assets/images/reading/doreen%20massey.pdf">article</a>). While for global and digital &#8216;neo-nomads&#8217; the world may indeed seem one homogeneous &#8216;smooth space&#8217;, for others it remains firmly divided by barriers and obstacles.</p>
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		<title>Review: “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities” by Mimi Ito et al.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put a review online of a great chapter by Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson called “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places”. Read it at The Mobile City weblog &#62;&#62;.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I put a review online of a great <a href="http://www.itofisher.com/mito/publications/portable_object.html">chapter</a> by Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson called “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places”. Read it at <a href="http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/01/23/review-portable-objects-in-three-global-cities-by-mimi-ito-et-al/">The Mobile City weblog &gt;&gt;</a>.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Artvertizing&#8221; in Lagos, Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<title>In Lagos &#8211; 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have now seen the milk factory and the packaging process, went to the market were Peak Milk products are being sold and talked to the people there, went to Apappa Harbor where the ships with milk powder arrive &#38; filmed pretty much all we need at this stage. In two days we will be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have now seen the milk factory and the packaging process, went to the market were Peak Milk products are being sold and talked to the people there, went to Apappa Harbor where the ships with milk powder arrive &amp; filmed pretty much all we need at this stage. In two days we will be in a truck that will take us to the north again. Hopefully we will be able to get a nice GPS track out of that too.</p>
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		<title>In Lagos &#8211; 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very uncomfortable with this way of transportation. This is a not-so-cool way to move around in this city. In my view it only draws more attention and creates more distance. At one point, a busdriver that didn&#8217;t move aside quickly enough was threathened by the armed guy right on the streets&#8230;. Luckily Esther [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was very uncomfortable with this way of transportation. This is a not-so-cool way  to move around in this city. In my view it only draws more attention and creates more distance. At one point, a busdriver that didn&#8217;t move aside quickly enough was threathened by the armed guy right on the streets&#8230;. Luckily Esther was able to persuade these men to turn off their sirens the 2nd day.</p>
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		<title>In Lagos -1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel de Lange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, Esther and I arrived in Lagos by air from Abuja. We were in the same plane as LL Cool J and his entourage&#8230; The arrival at the airport went smoothly, we were picked up by people from WAMCO company (producer of Peak Milk and Three Crowns Dairy products). Our car was accompanied by a [...]]]></description>
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