The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism

all you see in your workday are your co-workers and all you see out your window is the green perimeter of your carefully tended property,” she writes, “the notion of a shared responsibility in the collective metropolitan realm is predictably distant.”

Can Silicon Valley invent public space as it has reinvented public life online?

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Can Silicon Valley invent public space as it has reinvented public life online? If the cultish ideas about serendipity and chance encounters have any value, a new urbanism (with a small n, small u) betwixt the metropolis and the ‘burbs, can only lead to more billion-dollar ideas, more employed people, and a healthier environment. And if that doesn’t occur, maybe they have been worshipping a false, groupthink god all along.

This new sort of workplace arises from a drive toward a kind of productivity that prioritises that generative potential of culture,” Crescimano writes.

pauses are as important as the working periods … the opportunity for frequent respites by glancing at outdoor vistas is in accord with modern psychological theory on the nature of efficiency.

to turn its back on cities and stake a claim on the suburban pastoral idyll — isolated, proprietary, verdant, and disengaged from civic space.

and chance encounters have any value, a new urbanism (with a small n, small u) betwixt the metropolis and the ‘burbs, can only lead to more billion-dollar ideas, more employed people, and a healthier environment. And if that doesn’t occur, maybe they have been worshipping a false, groupthink god all along.

Can Silicon Valley invent public space as it has reinvented public life online? If the cultish ideas about serendipity

The companies need to talk to each other, to the city governments, and to their fellow citizens. They can build their own islands, but there’s a bigger opportunity here to re-imagine the city and suburb as an integrated, and integrating, innovation machine. Design can be beside the point.