Caricature of Urbanists vs. Technologists

One of the things we’re doing in the Urban Technology degree program is trying to build a language to talk about things from the often divergent perspectives of the folks who build technology and those who spend their time more focused on cities.

Both have such vast and thoughtful literatures and communities of practice that to pretend there’s anything less than a multitude of varying perspectives on either side would be foolish. Yet if we want to find a middle path, we need to know the extremes we’re navigating between, the peaks that define a lovely valley in which we can thrive. The table below is one of the tools we’ve been using to think through this.