Guest writer Colin Kloecker on The Where Blog has an interesting post about the interaction between virtual and urban environments, which bears an uncanny resemblance to our proposal for The Mobile City conference. I guess we’re on the right track..:-). He concludes by asking:

So all of this speculation begs the question: in this media-rich user-generated landscape, what role is there for the architect and urban planner?

Colin is talking (much more than we do) from a media perspective of user-generated content, which is an interesting hook, I think, to question the shifting role of urban planners. Worth reading!