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Pachube And The Internet Of Things

Not so long ago, the Internet of Things sounded like something very abstract. The term ‘Internet of Things’ represents a world in which more and more objects and…

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Clouds Of Data In The London Sky

It’s called a “celebration of technology” by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Recently an impressive international team of…

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Crowdsourcing: The Future Of Our Cities?

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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Mapping Distance To The Nearest McDonald’s

The data graphic above illustrates the distance to the nearest McDonald’s restaurant in the United States. In some regions the distance to the nearest McDonald’s is poignant far.…

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New York’s Day and Night Population


On the Urbanophile blog I stumbled upon an interesting graphic that gives insight in the huge differences between New York’s day and night population density…

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Open Source Urbanism With LimeWire Creator


LimeWire founder Mark Gorton has recently announced to launch an application for open source urbanism, inspired by the peer-to-peer principle. Gorton’s goal is to stimulate “crowdsourced development, freely-accessible…

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Size Matters: Ring Roads of World Cities

Mick Jagger once said about Amsterdam it’s the smallest metropolis in the world. Living in Amsterdam, I’m stay curious about what Jagger saw what I don’t notice. Amsterdam is with…

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Earthmine: Digital Street Art in Digital Cities

Earthmine is an interesting 3D mapping application that uses a Google StreetView-like environment extended with a virtual layer on the buildings upon which users can draw legal graffiti.…

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Mapping the Changing World

Through TED we recently found a great presentation of Hans Rosling of Gapminder about changes in the world over last 200 years. This great moving…

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Pastiche and the Strength of the Soft City

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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