Jonathan Cohen and Associates
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Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Age of the Internet: The record industry is suing music downloaders. Architects harbor the same fears: if the Internet makes it so easy to download material and make high-quality copies, aren’t designers just “giving it away” when they place their work on Web sites? What prevents competitors from stealing or misrepresenting your work as their own? more...

Radical Urban Theory: Writings on the Modern Urban Condition: Matthew Jalbert's ideosyncratic collection of rants about sprawl, urbanism and more...

The Wireless Lifestyle: Free wireless hotspots are changing the way the world works, plays, studies, shops, and hangs out, with interesting implications for cities and environments. more...

Stop Spam - This Really Works! SpamNet from Cloudmark works seamlessly with Outlook and is fast and effective. more...

The OpenDWG Standard: The Open Design Alliance has advanced OpenDWG as an industry standard for CAD data based on reverse engineering AutoCAD's DWG, but with documentation, support, and available to all on a level playing-field. It shouldn't have to be this way, but the design/construction industry has tolerated closed, proprietary file formats for data exchange rather than open, public standards. more...

Integrated Project Execution:
An examination of how the project-based culture of building must focus more on process and information and less on information technology, by Derek Middlemas of AVEVA. [PDF] more...

Connecting the Dots: Read about this groundbreaking conference in Architectural Record. more...

Recommended reading:
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs

Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, by Reyner Banham and Anthony Vidler

Virtual Reality and the Built Environment, by Jennifer Whyte

Communication and Design with the Internet by Jonathan Cohen

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Technology + Process Change: See Jonathan Cohen's presentation at Build Boston. more...

Coming attractions:
Jonathan Cohen will speak at these events:
A|E|C SYSTEMS, Orlando, FL, February 17, 2004, Virtual Building Roundtable, more...

Steel Construction eCommerce Strategies Industry Roundtable, March 23, 2004, Long Beach, CA, more...

AIA04 Convention, McCormick Place, Chicago: Cool Tools for Designers: Sketching, Visualization, and Presentation, Wednesday, June 9, 2004, more...

Intranets and Web Portals for Project and Knowledge Management, Friday June 11, 2004, more...

AIA TAP/ACADIA joint conference: FABRICATION: design systems, digital tools, and new materials: Cambridge, Ontario, November 11-14, 2004