A New Relationship to the Urban

Sorry for the crass (and, for those of you on Twitter, the repeated) self-promotion, but just a short post to link to my most recent column in This Magazine. It’s about how the mobile web, in things like Foursquare and Yelp, may help reconfigure our relationship to the urban, bringing to light the hidden corners of cities and, one day at least, fostering something like cultural exchange.

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  1. #1 by bill on February 18, 2010 - 11:02 am

    Thoughts about buzz(twitter) with checkin (foursquare)?

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