Ramadan may be the greatest programmatic agent in Amman. Mapping colors on a spectrum illustrates the contrast between the intensity of eating and the austerity of shutting down.

As we have observed, Amman does not have a history of public squares. Instead, the street network, which exists as a means of circulation is also a ‘public web’. In an ordinary day-time satellite photograph, the streets/public web is also a shadow map. To compliment, I have highlighted 5 small sites which begin to approach “the square” in hopes of finding sites in which to implemente a small ‘attractor’ element: our version of the Public Bit.

The Mecca model of orientation is one of central command. This suggests an alternative: a system where PublicBits in various global cities are all facing each other simultaneously countering the constant reference to Mecca’s “one-way street”. The result is a distributed network of collaboration and sharing.

a gate-like structure that acts as a visual portal into a foreign city. It allow the user the “look into a window” of another city’s public space. Similar portals could be deployed across the world and would along cities to “look into” each other. example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw