Literature
The review behind the method: eight threads of about 25 sources each, a second round of 69 on synthetic agents, each source marked with what is known about it.
How to read the marks. checked an auditor confirmed author, year, title and venue on a page it saw. corrected real, but a link or label was wrong; the correction is shown. not re-checked a scout saw it, nobody else did. recalled, unverified a lead only. Round one: 199 sources, 126 re-checked.
- Holons, hierarchy and scaleIs a holarchy a defensible structure for urban research, given the critiques of hierarchy and scale?
- Diagrams, notation and drawingWhat makes a diagram a finding and not an illustration?
- Ballard, theory-fiction, Ballard in urban studiesHow has Ballard been used as a method, and how does it fail?
- Unconventional methodsWalking, drift, fiction and practice, and how they earned legitimacy.
- Documents and the planning textHow to read a planning document as a text and tie it to the ground.
- Synthetic agents and collective intelligenceEvidence on models as research instruments, round one.
- Lived experience, ambiguity, timeAmbiguity as data, and time as the unit of space.
- Epistemic safeguardsPattern-finding, suspicion, rigour and researcher safety.
- Round two: synthetic handsObjections, AI as critic, the Science paper, the Alter role.