{"id":3330,"date":"2015-10-27T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2015-10-27T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:10:00","slug":"just-one-week-left-to-support-my-venture-in-crowdfunded-interactive-urbanist-travel-cultural-journalism-on-byline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"Just one week left to support my venture in crowdfunded interactive urbanist-travel-cultural journalism on Byline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/138571848\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>With <strong>one week left<\/strong> in the funding drive for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.byline.com\/project\/23\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhere Is the City of the Future?\u201d<\/a>, my experiment in crowdfunded interactive urbanist-travel-cultural journalism here on Byline, allow me to address a seemingly simple question: <strong>why search for the city of the future in the first place?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve previously explained, for each $2000 raised by this funding campaign, \u201cWhere Is the City of the Future?\u201d will produce an in-depth report one world city along the Pacific Rim, beginning with Los Angeles and Seoul and moving on to cities chosen by you, the supporters, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.byline.com\/project\/23\/article\/408\" target=\"_blank\">a selection<\/a> ranging from Tokyo to Sydney, Vancouver to Jakarta, Hong Kong to Honolulu. (Those who support the project at the highest level can also name a Pacific Rim city, even one not already on the list, for inclusion.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve raised just over $500 so far \u2014 about a quarter of the budget for the first city in the series \u2014 but still have a whole week in which to put together the kind of amount that will make it interesting. That would require a comparison of <strong>at least three or four Pacific Rim cities<\/strong>, meaning a total budget of at least $6000 or $8000 \u2014 but of course, the bigger the budget, and thus the more cities the project can cover, the better.<\/p>\n<p>Each city report from \u201cWhere Is the City of the Future?\u201d will take a long form, running over the course of weeks and making use of not just writing and photography but other audiovisual media as well \u2014 videos offering a glimpse into the on-the-street experience in these cities, audio interviews with those who know them best, and a host of other possibilities besides \u2014 in order to get as deep as possible into as many aspects of these cities as possible: <strong>their architecture, their geography, their food, their urban design, their technology, their languages, their transit\u2026<\/strong> the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>That very quality, above all others, strikes me as the reason to search for the city of the future: <strong>cities aren\u2019t just subjects, but nexuses of all subjects<\/strong>. Whatever fires up your curiosity, you can explore, discuss, and learn about in the context of cities. And now that most of the world\u2019s population has come to live in cities, they\u2019ve become perhaps the most important context you can explore, discuss, and learn about most of these subjects in.<\/p>\n<p>But you no doubt have particular things you\u2019d like to know about each city, specific neighborhoods (whether real or metaphorical) you\u2019d like to see explored. <strong>As a supporter of \u201cWhere Is the City of Future?\u201d you can make your preferences heard<\/strong>: maybe in the ongoing conversation of the project\u2019s Supporters\u2019 Cafe here on Byline, maybe in a Skype or Google Hangout session with me directly, or maybe even face-to-face over the choicest food and drink in the Pacific Rim city of your choice.<\/p>\n<p>Other benefits of supporting \u201cWhere Is the City of the Future?\u201d include postcards I\u2019ll send you from each of the Pacific Rim cities the project will cover; membership on the \u201cWhere Is the City of the Future?\u201d mailing list, with regular updates on my urban travels for the series as well as a roundup of interesting news stories pertaining to the cities in the series; and a complete print collection of the \u201cWhere Is the City of the Future?\u201d reports after the series has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>But first, over the next seven days, we\u2019ve got to get this thing funded! Thanks very much indeed for your time, attention, and, if I\u2019ve done anything at all here to convince you of the project\u2019s interestingness, support \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.byline.com\/project\/23\" target=\"_blank\">which you can provide on the &#8220;Where Is the City of the Future?&#8221;\u00a0page on Byline<\/a>. <strong>I\u2019ll see you on the Pacific Rim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one week left in the funding drive for \u201cWhere Is the City of the Future?\u201d, my experiment in crowdfunded interactive urbanist-travel-cultural journalism here on Byline, allow me to address a seemingly simple question: why search for the city of the future in the first place? As I\u2019ve previously explained, for each $2000 raised by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-where-is-the-city-of-the-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}