Urbanscale + cities 59
McKinsey: Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities
march 2011 by Urbanscale
(full pdf report tp download, and an exec summary)
cities
urbanism
statistics
trends
report
march 2011 by Urbanscale
City Forward
march 2011 by Urbanscale
IBM, NYU, MIT, Brookings
via:mayonissen
cities
opendata
data
statistics
ibm
march 2011 by Urbanscale
The Guardian: How one New York bike lane could affect the future of cycling worldwide | Matt Seaton
march 2011 by Urbanscale
The Guardian on a bike lane in Brooklyn, Sadik-Khan, NYC Politics, & the NYTimes as an active and partisan player [MN]
politics
journalism
guardian
nytimes
nyc
(nyc)
cycling
urbanplanning
cities
urbanism
from twitter
march 2011 by Urbanscale
NYT: Squatters on the Skyline
march 2011 by Urbanscale
Squatters on the skyline: images from our Ballardian present, from the NYT. [AG]
architecture
development
latinamerica
urbanism
cities
from twitter
march 2011 by Urbanscale
Designwala: Panel Discussion: Parallel Urbanism: local people regulating local spaces
march 2011 by Urbanscale
Unusually thought-provoking disc. & diverse perspectives @ Parallel Urbanism: local people regulating local spaces [MN]
architecture
urbanplanning
cities
urbanism
nyc
(nyc)
india
conservation
politics
from twitter
march 2011 by Urbanscale
Alternet: Surprise: Big Old New York City Is the Cutting Edge for Urban Transportation and a Vision for a Sustainable Future
february 2011 by Urbanscale
a profile of NYC transport commisioner Janette Sadik-Khan
via:mayonissen
nyc
(nyc)
transportation
urbanism
cities
mobility
cycling
february 2011 by Urbanscale
Lapham’s Quarterly: City of Seeds
february 2011 by Urbanscale
"... no native habitat but the street."
cities
nature
flora
history
urbanism
trees
february 2011 by Urbanscale
[1939] A Transit Program For The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
january 2011 by Urbanscale
Fascinating and beautiful look back: A Transit Program For The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, 1939 [MN]
via:mayonissen
mobility
transport
publictransport
LA
california
USA
cities
urbanism
1930s
january 2011 by Urbanscale
Technology and the City - Reading List | Serial Consign
january 2011 by Urbanscale
excellent reading list.
via:mayonissen
books
cities
urbanism
academic
technology
january 2011 by Urbanscale
YouTube - Songdo City - Cisco Connected City
january 2011 by Urbanscale
corporate utopia/dystopia/myopia at its best.
via:mayonissen
cisco
songdo
urbanism
cities
technology
ubicomp
marketing
video
smartcities
rhetoric
korea
january 2011 by Urbanscale
Groupe Chronos: L'Homo Mobilis et ses risques
july 2010 by Urbanscale
Bruno Marzloff - intelligent critique and extension of Georges Amar's thought, and my own.
transmobility
transportation
transit
mobility
cities
urbanism
urbansystemsdesign
july 2010 by Urbanscale
Endcommercial
june 2010 by Urbanscale
Still the gold standard for rigorous photodocumentation of the urban landscape.
(nyc)
photography
cities
sidewalking
yes
june 2010 by Urbanscale
dConstruct 2009: Elements of a Networked Urbanism
february 2010 by Urbanscale
A heroic transcription of the talk I gave in Brighton last year. While revealing all my tics and weaknesses as a speaker, it's nonetheless not a bad effort.
urbanism
urbancomputing
urbanplanning
urbansystemsdesign
cities
infrastructure
transit
technology
economics
surveillance
publicspace
interactiondesign
february 2010 by Urbanscale
Alex Payne: So You're Moving to San Francisco
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Quoted for truth, as they say.
sanfrancisco
urbanism
cities
citizenship
politics
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Podcast | dConstruct 2009
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.
augmented
architecture
API
cities
community
connoisseurship
crime
crowds
democracy
kultur
economics
futures
geography
identity
infovisualization
infrastructure
interface
location
maps
mobility
neighborhoods
networks
opensystems
publicspace
privacy
socialnetworking
swarm
transit
technosocial
ubicomp
urbancomputing
urbanism
wayfinding
september 2009 by Urbanscale
A Better Oakland: What are the core functions of a city?
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Not precisely the sense in which I'd ask this question, which is a data point in and of itself. Via teh Migurski.
oakland
cities
municipalgovernment
june 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It
april 2009 by Urbanscale
Implosion urbanism.
cities
interestingtimes
april 2009 by Urbanscale
D'Blog of 'Israeli: All The Joy I See Through These Architect's Eyes
april 2009 by Urbanscale
Amazing (and appropriately mega-)post on the evolution and representation of "Judge Dredd"'s Mega-City One.
cities
megacityone
architecture
yesterday'stomorrows
yes
april 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: France Unveils Bold Architectural Proposals for Metropolitan Paris
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Sorry for all the NYT links. Nico's on top of it this week, though. Looks like top-down planning hasn't quite died. Also: maglev!
urbanplanning
infrastructure
paris
cities
maglev!
march 2009 by Urbanscale
The Demon-Haunted World
february 2009 by Urbanscale
It's all right here. Double - no: triple - HOOAH.
mattjones
cities
urbancomputing
ubicomp
everyware
technology
yesterday'stomorrows
archigram
lessitus
bookproject
yes
againyes
february 2009 by Urbanscale
Boston.com: How the city hurts your brain
january 2009 by Urbanscale
Via Jones. There's some absolute patent nonsense in here, among the strong insights, but worthwhile overall.
cities
urbanplanning
attention
cognition
january 2009 by Urbanscale
[TIMES OF THE SIGNS]
august 2008 by Urbanscale
A largely visual, coffee-table book on the hypermediated urban visual environment, understandably if unfortunately Nippocentric. The texts were too poorly designed to read comfortably, at least standing in Kiasma's gift shop...
signage
screens
urbanism
design
cities
facade
japan
august 2008 by Urbanscale
Streetsblog: Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model
april 2008 by Urbanscale
Great. Now if someone could explain to me just what this so-called "New York City model" actually is...
(nyc)
sidewalking
transit
urbanplanning
urbanism
cities
cycling
april 2008 by Urbanscale
The new urban penalty | Free exchange | Economist.com
april 2008 by Urbanscale
Via blech. "America's farm and highway policies divert resources away from some of the most productive places in the country, at great taxpayer expense." AMEN to that.
economics
cities
urbanism
april 2008 by Urbanscale
This Place Is…
january 2008 by Urbanscale
"Raising awareness of people-centered place design"
urbanism
urbanplanning
design
ethnography
humangeography
cities
january 2008 by Urbanscale
Urban Mapping Gives Us Free Neighborhoods
january 2008 by Urbanscale
I read that title a little differently than they do. : . )
cities
neighborhoods
mapping
everyware
bookproject
january 2008 by Urbanscale
On Dog Shit and Open Source Urbanism
january 2008 by Urbanscale
How could I possibly have missed this?
cities
branding
AMS
amsterdam
lefebvre
urbanism
bookproject
dogshit
january 2008 by Urbanscale
CR Blog: Global Cities at Tate Modern
january 2008 by Urbanscale
Via Paul Mison's comment on the Speedbird "high density" thread. *Incredible*, visceral "visualizations."
art
cities
maps
infovisualization
informationdesign
density
january 2008 by Urbanscale
UDQ:59: An Urban Design Canon
december 2007 by Urbanscale
I'd agree on some points, not on others. A little dated, but not bad.
urbanism
cities
designingdesign
december 2007 by Urbanscale
The New Yorker: The Megacity
december 2007 by Urbanscale
This great article on Lagos isn't any easier to take a year later. (Was it online before?)
lagos
cities
urbanism
africa
december 2007 by Urbanscale
superfuture :: supertravel :: superguides
december 2007 by Urbanscale
Via Cheathco, Superfuture's PDF guide to Tokyo. T3h s3x.
cities
superfuture
wayneberkowitz
tokyo
publishing
december 2007 by Urbanscale
Architectural Representations of the City in Science Fiction Cinema
november 2007 by Urbanscale
OK, sure, why not? Via La Boyer.
cities
sf
film
november 2007 by Urbanscale
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