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The Phantom City: A Ubiquitous Museum

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday November 9, 2009

Humans are curious, and they love their curiosity being triggered. In regard to this, the New York-based Museum of the Phantom City does a very good…

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Crowdsourcing: The Future Of Our Cities?

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday October 11, 2009

The next battle for international cities might be the competition for open source-ness. Which city has the most initiatives using words like ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘city 2.0′, ‘open source’ and…

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Find Your Way Underground With AR

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday July 13, 2009

We all know Augmented Reality (AR) is the next big thing. Enhanced by the iPhone’s 3.0 OS and the iPhone 3GS, AR startups, such as Layar…

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Bye Bye, Bookshelf

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday March 5, 2009

Amazon just released Kindle 2. Kindle is an e-book reader for iPhone and iPod Touch. The application allows users to read books using a simple interface. Hundreds of…

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Pastiche and the Strength of the Soft City

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Tuesday February 24, 2009

A city consists of a hard side and a soft side. The hard side tells us something about the physical structure of a city. Too less people realise that what…

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