I came across this great animation made by Jer Thorp. It shows international flight movements not by tracking planes, but by collecting recognizable tweets by passengers. Most people…
This is the data that SimpleGeo collected from the eight geolocated data providers (FourSquare, Gowalla, Twitter, Flickr, Bump, Brightkite, BlockChalk, and Fwix) during the South by…
Within Pop-Up City circles, one could consider me the critical reviewer, grumbling in the background, pointing at the more ethical dimension of some of the things posted here (see my…
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…
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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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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Also tagged app, city, city 2.0, crowd, crowdsourcing, digital, diy, iphone, network, open source, system, transportation, urbanism |
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.…
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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged brooklyn, commute, data visualization, day, density, graphic, manhattan, new york, night, nyc, population |
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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged bottom-up, crowdsourcing, interactive, mapping, open source, planning, portland, software, Technology, urbanism |
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…
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.…
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…
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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