The Urban Genome Project

The UGP is a multi-disciplinary effort to develop a science of cities. How and why do cities emerge, coalesce, transform, and dissolve?

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[The Urban Genome Project @UrbanGenomeProj]

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[Gordon Brett @brett_gordon]

https://t.co/xyDlegeOYD New paper from @danielasilver12, Stefan Bargheer, and myself introducing our special issue on Theory Visualization in the Social Sciences. Some really excellent papers from awesome sociologists in this issue!

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

Michael Fried and Michel Houellebecq cross paths in my reflection on Annihilation, check it out @thepointmag !

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

Check out CityHood, a prototype tool for recommending city and neighborhoood scenes! @Richard_Florida: next gen Who's Your City?

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

https://t.co/ewxO2aSIDt

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

Bellah used a theory diagram to slot Japan and China into a predefined modernization grid. I retrace how that scheme overdetermined his conclusions, show why the pattern-variable/AGIL splice was doomed, and connect to how LLM hallucination.

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

A little essay on theoretical synthesis, diagrammatic hallucination, and the challenges of modernization theory. Bellah, Weber, Parsons, AI, and more.

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

New paper with Noga Keidar, out in Socius!
Urban Referencing Styles and Networks
We analyze how cities cite one another in public art policy, and what those citations reveal about symbolic hierarchies and discursive agency.

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

https://t.co/b9v7Eheayd

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

Today, it seems like life could not be more interesting. Every day, some new outrage occurs. There is some line crossed that seemed impassable. In turn, there is some boundary defended. I won’t list the specific boundaries and crossings. There are too many, and you know them all.

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

https://t.co/GWzE1FwNG2

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

Is thinking fast, slow, or a bit of both? How about none of the above?!

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

Classic and Model Based Fields
By classic-based I mean a research culture that treats canonical texts as the primary site of theoretical innovation and legitimacy. By model-based I mean one that treats formal mechanisms, often mathematical or computational.

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

That Ghoul, Reconsidered
Cultural Evolution and Parsonian Action Theory

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

https://t.co/d4xnHNzbo2

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

on Ideal non-Ideal Theory

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

https://t.co/Xsb6Z3HXd9

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

What does it mean to be an ally? What happens if we transfer a concept from international to interpersonal affairs? A little essay on Spinoza and Lakoff & Johnson on metaphors to live together by.

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

https://t.co/zl5nttBTwO

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

Georg Simmel is most remembered today as a foundational sociologist. However, he understood himself primarily as a philosopher. His philosophical reflections on the problem of fate help interpret the "and" in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate.

[Daniel Silver @danielasilver12]

https://t.co/pE8xMTisTO