Today’s Links

Can you use theoretical physics to design a city or a supercomputer? || kuro5hin.org. “However, in spite of the simplifications made in What is the optimal shape of a city? by Carl Bender et al, their results provide food for thought for supercomputer designers and Sim Mayors.” (Via Michael Williams. Thanks!)
Urban Editing – Cinematic Architecture in Temple Bar. “Although continuous, the city is more blunt than seamless, more startling than predictable. The disconcerted continuity of this urban moment recalls the disparity between adjoining yet dissimilar images in narrative cinema [...].” (Via Anne Galloway.) [Edit: Link broken, see it in the Wayback Machine. Thanks, Hermann!]
Fast Company’s Masters of Design issue. I must go back and check some of these articles as they are made available online.]
Fast Company | Welcome to the Design Revolution. “An essential part of this revolution is the idea of design as a metaphor for the future of work. [...] We ‘need to think and work[...], have attitudes[...], and learn to evaluate each other as designers do,’ says [Roger] Martin” (via Creative Generalist)