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Command-C: Urban Computing Against Gentrification

James David Morgan wrote this post at 4:31 pm on December 4th, 2009.

Commanding's urban computing

Did you hear the one about the city as software platform? A group of NYU students has taken a more oppositional approach, posting a series of simple computer commands to address gentrification, development and neighborhood preservation.

Re-blogged from the wonderful Social Design Notes.

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