Zaha Hadid’s Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati has an awesome quarter-pipe built into it at street-level, and it has signs all over it saying “no skating.” This got me thinking about how architects and civil engineers generally only remember skaters as an afterthought. They design for wind and rain and cars, but they design as if skaters weren’t ubiquitous and permanent.

When I lived in Singapore, the civil engineers appeared to design for network infrastructure first, and everything else second.

Somewhere out there is a quorum of design students busy planning for a grinder-optimized city, esp. for universal geotagging (“the locative”) and implantable tag readers and writers.

Hello Tallinn?