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Week 36: Our week in thirty-six words | Urbanscale
Our week in 36 words: [AG]
from twitter
september 2011
(500) http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/
Mapping for real-life use: U of Ottawa campus map lets you find either the shortest route - or the warmest
from twitter
september 2011
The Most Used Turnstile In The City This Year: Gothamist
The MTA has revealed the location of NYC's most used turnstile. 1,402,766 people, and counting [MN]
from twitter
september 2011
Jacques Lévy • The Unconsidered Passer-by.
The Unconsidered Passer-by: in Search of Public Space in South Asia
from twitter
september 2011
Eyes Above the Street: The High Line’s Second Installment by Martin Filler | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Eyes Above the Street - NY Review of Books reviews the second portion of the High Line [MN]
from twitter
september 2011
Lewis Mumford on the city - YouTube
Lewis Mumford, 1963: "The city multiplies man’s power to think, to remember, to educate, to communicate, and so..."
from twitter
september 2011
Transitflow: An Urban App in The Making
ReadWriteWeb takes a peek at our Transitflow app, currently in development:
from twitter
august 2011
foursquare :: Dens :: A brief history of foursquare
A geographic history of Foursquare (), a case study in how urban space fosters innovation () [MN]
from twitter
august 2011
New Signs Guide, and Restrict, Central Park's Many Visitors - NYTimes.com
New signage in Central Park to have "more of an informal than a dictatorial stance" [MN]
from twitter
august 2011
Week 34: In ahead of the storm | Urbanscale
Week 34: In ahead of the storm.
from twitter
august 2011
Perilous asymmetries: Playing with trust in the “smart city” | Urbanscale
And the piece itself, "Perilous asymmetries: Playing with trust in the 'smart city'":
from twitter
august 2011
Into print | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Project PERRY in print: [AG]
from twitter
august 2011
Scientific American: Cities
Entire Scientific American special issue on cities: [MN]
from twitter
august 2011
Cities in Fact and Fiction: An Interview with William Gibson: Scientific American
William Gibson in the Scientific American: "Cities in Fact and Fiction" [MN]
from twitter
august 2011
Lollipop Law
Police use lollipops to calm drunken revellers in Victoria, BC
august 2011
Week 33: Growing | Urbanscale
New weeknote — Week 33: Growing.
from twitter
august 2011
The Chicago Pedestrian Plan Website
CDOT and the City of Chicago launch the Chicago Pedestrian Plan to increase the city's walkability [MN]
from twitter
august 2011
Week 32: It don’t rain but it pours | Urbanscale
Week 32: It don't rain but it pours.
from twitter
august 2011
‪The Great North Road (1939)‬‏ - YouTube
Gorgeous. "The Great North Road" (color, 1939): [AG]
from twitter
august 2011
Weeks 30-31: Full house | Urbanscale
Weeks 30-31: Full house.
from twitter
august 2011
Victoria line, London, UK - 1964 - Halcrow Group
Lovely, if lengthly, video about building London's Victoria line, 1964 [MN]
from twitter
august 2011
Detroit: The Death of Manhattanism - Op-Ed - Domus
"I don't want Detroit to be Brooklyn. I want Detroit to be Detroit." Detroit: The Death of Manhattanism, in Domus: [MN]
from twitter
august 2011
Rorschmap | booktwo.org
"Cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything" - James Bridle's Rorschmap [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
Putting the park in Park Avenue: [AG]
from twitter
july 2011
Some implications of networked sensing for privacy in public space: Toward a taxonomy of public objects | Urbanscale
Some implications of networked sensing for privacy in public space: Toward a taxonomy of public objects.
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
New York is an evolutionary experiment, giving rise to truly urban species. [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
New York is an evolutionary experiment, giving rise to truly urban species. [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
New York is an evolutionary experiment, giving rise to truly urban species. [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
New York is an evolutionary experiment, giving rise to truly urban species. [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
New York is an evolutionary experiment, giving rise to truly urban species. [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
New York is an evolutionary experiment, giving rise to truly urban species. [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Log In - The New York Times
New York is an evolutionary experiment, giving rise to truly urban species. [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Buried below Park Ave | MetaFilter
ABANDON IN PLACE:
from twitter
july 2011
Apple’s Campus Bikes Are Classically Minimal
If we ever need to answer the brief "if apple made a bike-share system"...
bike  bicycle  bikeshare  apple  design  nologo 
july 2011
The Twenty-year Battery
Spec sheet for battery with 20-year charge lifetime, intended for AMR applications.
AMR  batteries 
july 2011
Week 29: “Talk To Me” edition | Urbanscale
Week 29: "Talk To Me" edition.
from twitter
july 2011
BART - New Train Car Project
San Francisco's "Fleet of the Future" - and BART want input from the public [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist
Simultaneously ubiquitous and almost invisible, Grange's work quietly snuck modernism into the fabric of this country's life
design  industrialdesign  publicobject  public  modernism 
july 2011
The Tastes of Drinking Water
The tastes of drinking water, and an ever-evolving infrastructural terroir [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
NYC.gov
Fascinating details of NYC's new real-time traffic flow sensing and management system [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Week 28: Introducing Urbanflow | Urbanscale
Week 28: Introducing Urbanflow.
from twitter
july 2011
Urbanflow Helsinki on Vimeo
RT : Urbanflow Helsinki, a first step toward our "operating system for cities," a video by Nordkapp:
from twitter
july 2011
VINTAGE PHOTOS: Take A Tour Of Manhattan In The 1940s
So wonderful: NYC in the 1940s...in color!
from twitter
july 2011
Week 27: Scattered, and rolling. | Urbanscale
Weeknote 27 (including details and content of the newspaper we made for our CIID students)
from twitter
july 2011
Untitled (http://www.urbanscale.org/downloads/urbanscale_ciid_newspaper_web.pdf)
...and here's the PDF of the newspaper we made our CIID students:
from twitter
july 2011
Project PERRY proof-of-concept on Vimeo
Here's the Project PERRY proof-of-concept video:
from twitter
july 2011
[map=yes]
Map=Yes, from Stamen [MN]
from twitter
july 2011
Weeks 25-26: We have ignition | Urbanscale
New weeknote: We have ignition.
from twitter
july 2011
All media and all technologies have biases. It may... - Ariomblr
"All media and all technologies have biases", which might vary even if things feel the same (- Rushkoff) [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
Rebuilding the City: 1951 and now | Southbank Centre.
This Sunday at London's Royal Festival Hall: “Rebuilding the City: 1951 and now”: [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
Infovore » Walled Gardens and the Instrumented City
Walled Gardens and the Instrumented City: [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
London Tubemap - A new angle on the London Underground
Via , a geographically-accurate London Tube map: [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
Moving Platforms on Vimeo
Local trams docking to high-speed trains, eternally in motion: Priestmangoode's Moving Platforms [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
NYC Subway Redirect « Strange Native
nyc  subway  metro  design  designfiction  lowtech  realnotbetter 
june 2011
Xeroxed Village: Chinese Secretly Copy Austrian UNESCO Town - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
urbanism  copyright  architecture  china  culture 
june 2011
Allgemeiner und besonders ... Google Books
Allgemeiner und besonders Hamburgischer Contorist, welcher von den Währungen, Münzen, Gewichten, Maae︣n, Wechsel-Arten und Usanzen der vornehmsten in und ausser Europa gelegenen Städte und Länder nicht nur eine umständliche Nachricht ertheilet; sondern auch solche beschriebene Münz-Sorten, Gewigte und Massen zuvörderst gegen die, so zu Hamburg, hiernächst aber, in angegebenen Tabellen, auch gegen die, so an andern Orten gebräuchlich sind, genau vergleichet – Jürgen Elert Kruse
book  measure  standards  standardisation  cartography  maps  mapping  distance 
june 2011
N SKY C
The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes (a bit grey in NY this morning, eh?). [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
UK train ticket redesign « robert hempsall – information designer
This sounds like a job for Project PERRY! [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
Train! - Boston.com
PSYOP in support of public safety on the rails of Bombay: [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
YouTube - ‪3rd Avenue El - early 1950's‬‏
New York City's Third Avenue El, early 1950s. Dig it. [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
Week 24: All your bridge are belong to us | Urbanscale
Week 24: All your bridge are belong to us.
from twitter
june 2011
BLDGBLOG: The Subterraneans
A very much hidden aquatic urban infrastructure... thing, via [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
Tapping into the Flow: NYC’s Assemblage with Water (Geologic City Report #12) « FOP
On tap water, geology, and hidden and not-so-hidden aquatic urban infrastructures [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
Building a better intersection for pedestrians « Spacing Toronto
This is a lovely, simple intervention: crosswalks tuned to the ways in which people actually use them. [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
An open letter to Twitter on The @towerbridge Affair | Urbanscale
An open letter to Twitter on : [AG]
givetowerbridgeback  from twitter
june 2011
Project PERRY: Mmmmmoving right along | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Retrospective signs of progress on our Project PERRY: [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
Snapper: Working with Urbanscale
partnership 
june 2011
Public Horizon @ The Urban Landscape Lab
What next for public space, NYC? A panoramic pavilion for imagining new civic spaces: [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
(500) http://streetview1982.com/index-street-view-panoramas-new-york-city-1982.html
NYC Street View 1982: [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
(500) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hyperpublic/
AG at Harvard's Berkman Center for : A Symposium on Designing Privacy & Public Space in a Connected World
hyperpublic  from twitter
june 2011
Week 23: Toward a Built Works Registry | Urbanscale
Week 23: Toward a Built Works Registry.
from twitter
june 2011
3-Way Street on Vimeo
3-way street: A case study of a single intersection - lovely use of video and visual language [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
Untitled (http://www.artstor.org/news/n-pdf/ariticle-Built_Works_Registry.pdf)
Toward a global, machine-readable Built Works Registry: [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
Mapnificent - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps
"The area you can reach with public transport from any point in a given time." Mapnificent: [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
Find everywhere you can go in 15 minutes or less
"The area you can reach with public transport from any point in a given time." Mapnificent: [MN]
from twitter
june 2011
The Strong, Weak, Open and Transparent
Very nice account of different flavors of augmented reality. Note, of course, that I believe all of this to be wrongheaded — but the explanation beats any I've found elsewhere.
augmentedreality  technology  optics  urbancomputing 
june 2011
(403) http://groups.google.com/group/FridaysAt7
If you've been enjoying FRIDAYS AT 7, why not join our Google Group to keep abreast of what's going on?
FATSEVEN  from twitter
june 2011
Week 22: Undoing AR | Urbanscale
Week 22: Undoing AR:
from twitter
june 2011
Ads Get Smart | Hybrid Reality | Big Think
Ban spyscreens in New York City NOW: [AG]
from twitter
june 2011
Subways That Open into Buildings // NoahBrier.com
New York City subway stations that open directly into buildings - fascinating blend of public/private, in/outside [MN]
from twitter
may 2011
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