Urban versioning system 1.0
By: Matthew Fuller and Usman Haque
Contributors: Haque, Usman, author
Series: Situated technologies pamphlets -- 2; Situated technologies pamphlets -- 2.
Publisher: The Architectural League of New York
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Public spaces; Open source software; Ubiquitous computing; Social aspects
Description: "In this pamphlet, architect Usman Haque and media theorist Matthew Fuller look beyond established precepts and explore an alternate technology of space making derived from the politics of "code" itself. In a conversation of sorts between the protocols of Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) licenses and those of spatial construction (building codes, zoning ordinances), the authors attempt to map out a quasi-license by which the architecture of the city might be remade in the manner of FLOSS software, and suggest a series of 76 constraints by which this license might be manifest in the open, collaborative production of urban space."--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-57).