- Yes, “ Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space. ”
- Easterling reaches the same conclusion for different reasons in “ New Monuments: Keller Easterling on Norman Foster ’ s Crystal Island, ” Artforum International 46, no. 10 (Summer 2008).
- There is no lack of attention in the popular press as to how Cloud platforms affect Bay Area urbanism. See, for example, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, “ How the Tech Industry Is Quietly Changing the Face of American Cities, ” Gizmodo, June 18, 2013, and Daniel Safarik, “ The Spell of Hot Desk, ” Unfrozen (blog), May 28, 2013, http://arch-unfrozen.tumblr.com/post/51615608029/ the-spell-of-hot-desk.
- A grand organizational chart, like D ü rer ’ s massive print, Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I.
- See the Google 2.0 campus video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3v4rIG8kQA.
- See for example, no author cited, “ Googledome, or Temple of Doom? ” http://www .economist.com/news/business/21645747-tech-firms-are-building-pharaonic-head-offices-again -googledome-or-temple-doom, March 7, 2015, and Nick Allen, “ Google Faces Opposition to New Headquarters, ” Telegraph, February 25, 2015. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ google/11435802/Google-faces-opposition-to-new-headquarters.html.
- As this book was going to press, we learned that the Mountain View city council voted for Linkedin ’ s alternative proposal for the site, perhaps preventing at least delaying, the eventual construction of some version of Ingalls ’ and Heatherwick ’ s plan. See Conor Dougherty “ Google Loses to Linkedin in Silicon Valley Headquarters Pitch, ” New York Times, May 6, 2015, http:// nyti.ms/1F68CMI.
- Adam Greenfield compares “ Zee Town ” to company towns of years past in “ Is Facebook ’ s ‘ Zee Town ’ More Than Just a Mark Zuckerberg Vanity Project? ” Guardian, March 10, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/10/facebook-zee-town-mark-zuckerberg.
- See Kirk Johnson and Nick Wingfield, “ As Amazon Stretches, Seattle ’ s Downtown Is Reshaped, ” New York Times, August 25, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/us/ as-amazon-stretches-seattles-downtown-is-reshaped.html.
- See for example, Colin Marshall, “ Amazon ’ s New Downtown Seattle HQ: Victory for the City over Suburbia? ” Guardian, May 22, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/22/ amazon-futuristic-new-downtown-seattle-hq-microsoft-nintendo.
- For a partial list of the locations of Amazon fulfillment centers in North America, see Jennifer Dunn, “ Locations of Amazon Fulfillment Centers, ” Bottom Line (blog), March 17, 2014, http:// outright.com/blog/locations-of-amazon-fulfillment-centers-2/.
- In the essay “ Utopia as Replication, ” in Valences of the Dialectic (London: Verso, 2009), Fredri Jameson draws links between Walmart and certain infrastructural utopian potentiality.
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