75. We're Back, Miss Us?Never mind the weather, don’t you feel it has been a cold
and eerily quiet winter? Could it be because Unfrozen was offline due to unanticipated legal issues with our podcasting platform? Never fear, we are back in black / in the saddle again, we missed you, and we are ready to infiltrate your ears with our musings once again.
Intro/Outro: “Miss You,” by the Rolling Stones
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Discussed:
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Spotify throws a sprocket in our jam-bulance wheels
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Ubik-like terms of service, as written by Philip K. Dick.
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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Dubai: Mistakes were made
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15-minute cities are in the Dubai 2040 plan
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Junkspace
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Diriyah Gate
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Qiddiya
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North Pole Riyadh, 2-kilometer tower by Foster + Partners
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The Ministry of McKinsey
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The US Senate Inquiry into the PIF Consultants
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Dubai Creek Harbour and the delayed Dubai Creek Tower maybe restarting?
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Jeddah Tower also maybe restarting?
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Pritzker Prize goes to Riken Yamamoto
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Work includes The Circle, Zurich Airport
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Bjarke Ingels had a big, postmodern, postironic
week
o Museum/Casino of Freedom and Democracy, New York
o Las Vegas A’s Stadium
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Exhuming Baudrillard
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Bears and Sox lobbying Chicago and Illinois for stadium subsidies
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F1 < Saudi Vegas > F1
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Saudi 2034 World Cup Stadium by Populous
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Greg’s SXSW calendar
o Conference of Mayors
Civic I/O Mayor’s Summit
o Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development
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Also at SXSW: Imagine Harder: Prototyping Impossible
Futures
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Don’t drive or walk outside using Apple Vision Pro goggles
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Upcoming guests:
o Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing, authors of Horror in Architecture
o Kevin Kelley, Shook Kelley, author of Irreplaceable (not Kevin Kelly)
# Spotify IssuesThe recent complications faced by the podcast due to legal challenges related to Spotify's platform policies.