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This article reviews the urban transdisciplinary research of the Northlake Collective, a multidisciplinary group of graduate students in the University of Washington's Lake Union Laboratory. Through a series of place-based investigations, we explored a small slice of Seattle ultimately seeking to engage the public through an online digital humanities portal. The broader goal of our work and this paper is to address how we, as a team of emerging scholars, understand and investigate ‘cities’ in the current century as both networked at the global scale and dynamic places for everyday interactions and processes. The paradoxes and complexity inherent to understanding the ‘city’ and how to address these concerns led us to develop a framework that might enrich grounded urban theory through the ‘enabling constraints’ of place, technology and public. The productive character of these three concepts, combined with the practical constraints and interrelationships they bring to bear, allowed us to deepen our work and produced the context for our research of Northlake. We propose this tripartite framework for exploring the contemporary city via the structure afforded by transdisciplinary, born-digital collaborations.

Para  quienes  observan  a Filipinas,  la  principal  preocupación  del  periodo  2022-2023 ha sido el rumbo del nuevo gobierno de Ferdinand Marcos Jr. con Sara Duterte (la hija de Rodrigo Duterte) como su vicepresidenta. Con la sombra del autoritarismo de su propio padre  parecía  verosímil  que  las  políticas  internas  y  externas  de  su  predecesor  podrían  continuar. Si bien el gobierno de Marcos no ha constituido un cambio radical, tampoco ha seguido  sus  pasos  en  todos  los  puntos.  En  política  exterior,  Filipinas  ha  virado  hacia  un  realineamiento con Estados Unidos; en temas internos ha habido algunas mejoras marginales. Es todavía el primer año de gobierno, así que es difícil predecir lo que ocurrirá después.

For observers of the Philippines, the main concern during the 2022–2023 period was the course that Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s new administration would take. With Sara Duterte (daughter  of  Rodrigo  Duterte)  as  his  vice  president  and  the  looming  shadow  of  his  own  father’s  authoritarianism,  it  seemed  plausible  that  his  predecessor’s  domestic  and  foreign  policies  would  continue.  While  the  Marcos  administration  has  not  proven  a  radical  shift,  neither has it followed the previous administration’s path on all fronts. In foreign policy, the Philippines has realigned itself with the United States; in domestic affairs, there have been some marginal improvements. With the administration being only one year old, it is difficult to predict what the future holds.