Atelier Olschinsky

Cities thrive when they successfully service our basic needs with intelligence and simplicity. Recovering from 60 years of automobile-focused development and sprawl, urban planners are taking things in the right direction—backwards.

David Cox interviews Bruce Sterling on the so-called ‘New Aesthetic’ to examine ideas such as 'processuality'; identifying patterns that connect machine sensor vision, aerial imaging, beauty in digital 'mistakes' and a general folding in of the digital into the real.