We're Back, Miss Us‪?‬ Unfrozen

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

o  
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 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)