Post-smart cities come to the UK? I was also struck by how much of the imagery for the #ForestCity proposal seemed recycled from Sidewalk Lab's failed Toronto "smart neighbourhood" venture. #smartcities #platformcities #chartercities
Critical Update! The Guardian’s Failure: Questions Not Asked
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Post-smart cities come to the UK? I was also struck by how much of the imagery for the #ForestCity proposal seemed recycled from Sidewalk Lab's failed Toronto "smart neighbourhood" venture. #smartcities #platformcities #chartercities
The combination of the trends to #authoritarianism and post- #smartcities, or #platformcities, is generating anti-democratic ideas like this one in #Georgia...
Georgian Dream is considering relocating major state institutions to a vast “government town” on a hilltop in Tbilisi.
Georgian Dream Considers Moving State Institutions to Planned ‘Government Town’ in Tbilisi - Civil Georgia
Georgian Dream is considering relocating major state institutions to a vast “government town” on a h
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December 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The combination of the trends to #authoritarianism and post- #smartcities, or #platformcities, is generating anti-democratic ideas like this one in #Georgia...
Residents of the areas around the #SpaceX launch site in Texas (who are mostly Space-X employees), to vote on whether they should incorporate as a city (or more accurately, #Musk 's company town), called #Starbase. #cities #platformcities
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees to vote on ‘Starbase’
Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community expected to approve plan to create new city
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Residents of the areas around the #SpaceX launch site in Texas (who are mostly Space-X employees), to vote on whether they should incorporate as a city (or more accurately, #Musk 's company town), called #Starbase. #cities #platformcities
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
As NEOM collapses under the weight of its own ridiculousness, I just wanted to remind folks of what I wrote 18 months ago... #smartcities #platformcities theconversation.com/the-scaling-...
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
As NEOM collapses under the weight of its own ridiculousness, I just wanted to remind folks of what I wrote 18 months ago... #smartcities #platformcities theconversation.com/the-scaling-...
#techbros can't get their physical city-states built properly in Honduras or Saudi Arabia or California, but they are trying to simulate some on the Internet, with the somewhat ironically named #Praxis #smartcities #platformcities #postsmartcities #AIcities
For example: Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are building a city: Praxis.
"Praxis" will be a “network state” – a corporate-ruled zone.
From Praxis' website : "As local communities dissolve and Nation States stumble, Network States will ascend."
"Praxis" will be a “network state” – a corporate-ruled zone.
From Praxis' website : "As local communities dissolve and Nation States stumble, Network States will ascend."
October 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
#techbros can't get their physical city-states built properly in Honduras or Saudi Arabia or California, but they are trying to simulate some on the Internet, with the somewhat ironically named #Praxis #smartcities #platformcities #postsmartcities #AIcities
#PraxisNetworkState is hitting the mainstream with what can only be described as a puff-piece in Vanity Fair: barely critical journalism of the promotional kind. #platformcities
www.vanityfair.com/news/praxis-...
www.vanityfair.com/news/praxis-...
Welcome to Praxis: The High-Tech, High-Testosterone Eden That Will Save the World
Dryden Brown has raised half a billion dollars to build a city where the rich will get richer, discuss ‘The Odyssey,’ and, he thinks, restore Western civilization. Heaven, it turns out, just may be an...
www.vanityfair.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
#PraxisNetworkState is hitting the mainstream with what can only be described as a puff-piece in Vanity Fair: barely critical journalism of the promotional kind. #platformcities
www.vanityfair.com/news/praxis-...
www.vanityfair.com/news/praxis-...
Another histrionic, very white, neocolonial, "sustainable", "smart" SEZ vision drops... this time on St Kitts and Nevis. They are doing it for the people, don't you know! #smartcities #platformcities #AIcities
destiny.com
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Destiny
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October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Another histrionic, very white, neocolonial, "sustainable", "smart" SEZ vision drops... this time on St Kitts and Nevis. They are doing it for the people, don't you know! #smartcities #platformcities #AIcities
destiny.com
destiny.com