Anthony Townsend

Architectural Record Clip

I had some quotes in here regarding the Seoul Digital Media City project.

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Businessweek Clip

Me and Terry were photographed for a BusinessWeek special issue on Wi-Fi.

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Time clip

Another photo of me with a laptop in Bryant Park in Time last year

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Focus Clip

This article in the German magazine had a photo of me on the roof of a tenement in the East Village.

ECIFFO Clip

This was an article in a Japanese magazine on design that I appeared in last year PDF

STELLA Budapest Meeting Presentation

Mobile Communications and Sustainable Transportation: An Agenda for Research and Action
Anthony Townsend, New York University
Email: anthony.townsend@nyu.edu
April 23, 2004
Budapest, Hungary

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Previous research has investigated the many linkages between telecommunications and demand for travel in urban and metropolitan areas. However, despite the rapid and widespread diffusion of mobile communications technologies, almost no research has looked at the role these new systems are playing in organizing transportation and distribution systems in Europe and North America. The convergence of mobile communications with geographic information systems and automated positioning technology further suggests the importance of these technologies in understanding the changing nature of urban transportation.

This presentation will propose a framework for a multi-year trans-Atlantic research agenda to investigate the links between mobile communications, sustainable transportation, land use, energy use, and the environment.

Key questions to be addressed include:
• What theories and concepts are available to help frame research on the changes in travel and land use being facilitated by mobile communications?
• What are the relevant spatial and organizational scales at which to focus research? (Individual, group/firm, city & region?)
• What are the implications for ITS research as consumers and organizations deploy “ad hoc” ITS systems on a widespread basis?
• What are the opportunities for trans-Atlantic collaboration and cooperation in this research?

This presentation will focus on generating a debate about the importance of mobile communications to the sustainable transportation research community, and methods for crafting and linking this research agenda to current and past efforts.

Wireless Public Space Class at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program

I'll be teaching my class on Wireless Public Space again this fall at ITP.

H79.2452 Wireless Public Space

This class is an intensive design workshop focusing on the challenges of deploying interactive digital media installations in public spaces in New York City. In this workshop, students apply traditional theory and practice of good urban design to design, evaluate and re-conceptualize interactive public installations. Student-designed installations are encouraged to draw upon one or more of three technology areas that offer new opportunities for enhancing urban public space: digital displays, wireless local area networks, and geographic information & positioning systems.

Update: Summer Fulbright in Korea

Well, I've arrived in Seoul and am settling into my new apartment.

Keep up on all the research at my new blog Seoul Digital City [http://urban.blogs.com/seoul]

Me in Newsweek

I'm featured in a Newsweek special issue on wireless, in an article titled "A Few Who Got Us Here".

Here's a PDF of the full article. Read on for the text of the part about me...

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New Statesman Article on Korean Broadband

I've just published an article in the New Statesman, a British public affairs magazine, on what the UK can learn from Korea's success in developing broadband infrastucture.

You can read my short article or the entire 30+ page supplement.