Digging Through Archives and Dirt:

Entangling Media Archaeology, Archaeology Proper, and Architectural History Shannon Mattern
The New School

Rio de Janerios Command Center

William Henry Fox Talbot: West Front, York Minster, from Lendal Street, ca. 1845

Berenice Abbott: Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan, 1935

Charles Marville, Rue Basse-des-Ursins, le de la Cit, 1865; The Piercing of the Avenue de lOpra, 1865

Charles Marville, Rue de Rivoli, 1877

Adolf Loos, Villa Mller, Prague, 1930

Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Las Vegas Studio, 1968

Levittown, PA

has been underway at least since the development of technological images in the context of urban modernization in the mid-19th century (Scott McQuire, The Media City, 2008, p. vii)

from the hand-held camera at the end of the 19th century to the mobile phone at the end of the 20th, the city has always been a mediated construct (Eric Gordon, The Urban Spectator, 2010, p. 2)

Via Archaeology Excavations:

http://bit.ly/HJpck0

Via National Park Service, Tumaccori Dig, 1935

Via igic.org

Harvard GSD, Landscape Futures

Telegraph Wires + Train Tracks; Fiber Optic Cables in Parisian Sewers

Via University of Tennessee:

http://bit.ly/9mcBEn

Via The World Around Us:

http://bit.ly/HVgxQg

Peruvian Geoglyphs;
via http://bit.ly/HUOmhX

Ben Millen, iPhone Deconstruction [/Archaeology]:

http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155

Via MakingMaps.net

Testing the ringing rocks @ Stonehenge:

http://bit.ly/60wxa8

Via LNL

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Via NYTimes

Via http://bit.ly/JScmPa

Via cnn.com; Mrjaja on Flickr: http://bit.ly/JS