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A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community

Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression.

As concerns about the impacts of climate change and increasing urbanisation accelerate, one US city is streets ahead in the race for sustainability. Jeffrey R Hammarlund and Connie Ozawa report for Fast Thinking magazine on Portland's rise as the greenest city in the USA.