urbanscale + urbancomputing 193
The Strong, Weak, Open and Transparent
june 2011 by Urbanscale
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 by Urbanscale
Core77: Tokyo's new, huge, and very smart vending machines
december 2010 by Urbanscale
A little misleading as regards the Japanese technological landscape, but still important.
sidewalking
datamining
retail
streetfurniture
publicspace
urbancomputing
from delicious
december 2010 by Urbanscale
Alper.nl: Boris Bikes are made of epic win
september 2010 by Urbanscale
On best practices for bikesharing.
london
cycling
urbanism
urbancomputing
urbansystemsdesign
transportation
transmobility
from delicious
september 2010 by Urbanscale
A City in the Cloud: Living PlanIT Redefines Cities as Software
august 2010 by Urbanscale
This is so fucking stupid I don't even know where to start.
urbancomputing
DONOTWANT
knowyourenemy
from delicious
august 2010 by Urbanscale
Ascent Stage: Lessons from unmaking urban mistakes
july 2010 by Urbanscale
A nuanced, passionate, comprehensively-researched, fairly incredible piece on urban roadway remediation and systemic flow from John Tolva. Frankly, I'm still absorbing the full richness of it, but even a third of the way through I can tell you this is kind of a jackpot link.
systems
transportation
infrastructure
urbancomputing
urbanplanning
complexity
community
datamining
johntolva
july 2010 by Urbanscale
Urban Omnibus: Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism
july 2010 by Urbanscale
Cassim did a great job of editing my two 1,500-word texts into a single 1,000-word piece. The essential points are intact; the voice is mostly preserved. Enjoy.
urbancomputing
urbanism
infrastructure
sidewalking
transmobility
networks
neighborhoods
july 2010 by Urbanscale
The Atlantic: Tomorrowland
june 2010 by Urbanscale
Uncritical pap; reads like a press release. The Atlantic is rendering its readers a disservice.
urbancomputing
stenography
june 2010 by Urbanscale
HABITAR catalogue
june 2010 by Urbanscale
Super stuff here from Arnall, Boyer, Galloway, Girardin, "Husman" Haque, Hill, Nova, Shepard et al.
urbancomputing
june 2010 by Urbanscale
YouTube: CITY OF EAST ORANGE POLICE DEPARTMENT DEBUTS REAL TIME SMART TECHNOLOGY
june 2010 by Urbanscale
(This is, after all, what IBM's Smart Cities campaign looks like when translated into real life...cheesy soundtrack and all.)
panoptical
surveillance
policing
urbancomputing
newjersey
interestingtimes
june 2010 by Urbanscale
The Superflux Blog: Designing for India’s Immaterial Urbanism
june 2010 by Urbanscale
Anab's great talk from WCIT2010 last week.
urbanism
india
networks
urbancomputing
mapping
anabjain
june 2010 by Urbanscale
Mac Rumors: Apple Patent Application Details Temporary Location-Specific iPhone Applications
may 2010 by Urbanscale
From "location-aware" to "location-specific." Note restaurant wait time and menu-on-personal-device use cases.
apple
everyware
urbancomputing
retail
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Tomoe + Abe: MEGAHOUSE
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Regrettably commerce-oriented, but otherwise absolutely right-on. "Inhabit the city as though it were your house." NB There's no reason why the plug-in services here specified as commercial ventures couldn't be swapped out for free or non-cash-economy alternatives.
urbancomputing
urbanism
networks
servicedesign
ecosystems
infrastructure
yes
may 2010 by Urbanscale
we make money not art: Digital Shelter
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Creating safe harbors from the all-seeing network (2005)
privacy
countermeasures
everyware
urbancomputing
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Feng Shui City: Networked Cuba quarter
april 2010 by Urbanscale
CJ Wells came to our Systems/Layers walkshop in Wellington and blogged this *awesome* writeup. So, so stoked. (See map at http://is.gd/bHfNa)
wellington
webstock
walkshop
sidewalking
psychogeography
doprojects
urbancomputing
urbanism
april 2010 by Urbanscale
Google Code: General Transit Feed Specification
april 2010 by Urbanscale
So my question would have to be, who decided on the parameters of this specification? Is Google now in a position to tell transit operators how to structure their data (duh), or was there some existing semantics they picked up and extended?
API
google
transit
urbancomputing
urbansystemsdesign
april 2010 by Urbanscale
Capacity Management at the Airport through Bluetooth Technology
april 2010 by Urbanscale
"Bluetooth is also used to transfer data about the movement patterns of the person carrying to mobile device to a server, in order to analyze movement patterns, queue and dwell time."
airports
urbancomputing
bluetooth
datamining
mobility
april 2010 by Urbanscale
Solar Roadways
march 2010 by Urbanscale
Road surfacing with built-in photovoltaics and signage. Huh.
infrastructure
energy
signage
traffic
urbancomputing
march 2010 by Urbanscale
Urban Screens
march 2010 by Urbanscale
Unusually clear and bullshit-free thinking about the whats and whys of urban media interfaces, from Teppo Kotirinta at Nordkapp.
helsinki
touchscreen
interface
interactiondesign
ethnography
urbancomputing
informationdesign
sidewalking
march 2010 by Urbanscale
NYT: Cellphone Applications Let Shoppers Point, Click and Buy
february 2010 by Urbanscale
Predictive analytics. Oh joy.
mobile
everyware
urbancomputing
business
retail
datamining
bad
knowyourenemy
february 2010 by Urbanscale
YouTube: Systems/Layers: Understanding urban space in an era of networked informatics
february 2010 by Urbanscale
If you couldn't make it to Wellington, this video will go some way toward capturing the flavor and texture of our walkshop. Thanks so much to Nigel for filming it!
urbancomputing
urbanism
sidewalking
wellington
newzealand
webstock
february 2010 by Urbanscale
ASBOrometer: Measure UK anti-social behaviour on iPhone and Android
february 2010 by Urbanscale
On the one hand: OMGWTF. On the other: Entirely predictable, and — I might add, with some justice — that in fact I called this one from twenty miles off. Via Tom Carden.
urbancomputing
uk
politics
publicspace
ethics
law
interestingtimes
wtf
february 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
MetaFilter: QR Code Facade
january 2010 by Urbanscale
Nice work, Alex.
urbancomputing
architecture
tokyo
january 2010 by Urbanscale
YouTube: AIDA Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Nothing earthshaking here, but a nice roundup of all of the sensors and sources involved in plotting optimal routes. IMO, this stuff will come into its own not when embedded in a privately-owned vehicle, but when adaptive to & portable between all the different contexts of a transmodal mobility system. Also: ROBOT MUST DIE. I *hate* cutesy anthropomorphic interfaces with a scarcely-conceivable passion.
senseablecity
traffic
transportation
urbancomputing
cars
mobility
october 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality
october 2009 by Urbanscale
"80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged": Compare to the considerable success of Barcelona's technically all-but-identical Bicing system. A perfect case study in the locally differential adoption of technologies; namechecks Bruno Marzloff.
paris
cycling
mobility
networks
transportation
urbancomputing
rage
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Gothamist: L Train Real-Time Subway Screens Reach Bedford Ave Station
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Well, OK, so they need a little help with the graphic design. But the *idea* is right on!
(nyc)
infovisualization
infrastructure
mta
subway
urbancomputing
screens
transit
october 2009 by Urbanscale
The Architectural League of New York: Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5: A synchronicity
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Nicolas Nova & teh Julian Bleecker drop SitTech pamphlet No. 5, and all is good with the world.
nicolasnova
tehbleecker
urbancomputing
architecturalleague
situatedtechnologies
books
yes
october 2009 by Urbanscale
City Forward
october 2009 by Urbanscale
As noted previously, very disturbed at IBM's attempts to bigfoot the conversation around these issues. Which is a huge shame, because so so much of this is right on.
urbancomputing
urbanism
contingent
politics
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Vague Terrain: Cognitive Maps and Database Urbanisms
october 2009 by Urbanscale
"These...logics and relationships...resist conventional forms of representation[,] and to operate within them requires the development of tools of analysis and design that account for the multiplicities of scale and complex logics that are found within the contemporary city."
urbanism
architecture
maps
designingdesign
urbancomputing
urbansystemsdesign
complexity
politics
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Systems/Layers: Understanding urban space in an era of networked informatics
october 2009 by Urbanscale
"Visions of networked urbanism tend to live in what Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell call a "proximate future," that just-over-the-horizon window of time that never actually seems to arrive. But how do networked services inform our choices and experiences in the real city that we actually inhabit at this moment?" The "feet-on" workshop I'll be offering at Webstock in NZ next February. Do please join us.
urbancomputing
sidewalking
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Fox Stink: Networked Urbanism
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Resisting the tide of urban informatics and every circumstance it brings in its wake. I appreciate the sentiment more than its author might suspect, even if I find some of the specific antecedents cited pointless or moribund.
urbancomputing
DONOTWANT
october 2009 by Urbanscale
MetaFilter: Demon's Souls
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Not really interested in this game per se, but because of some of the very interesting interplayer mechanics described in the thread (and kudos to the developers!). Would be very interesting if there were any practical analogies for these in the RL city.
game
community
urbancomputing
attention
october 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Interesting to note: A rabbinical panel rules that elevator cars that "know" how many people are aboard constitute a desecration of the Jewish Sabbath. Whither the instrumented city? Gonna get tough to be an observant Orthodox Jew.
(nyc)
jewness
urbancomputing
ubicomp
everyware
humangeography
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Digital Cities: Words on the street
october 2009 by Urbanscale
My piece in this month's "Wired UK." It's not exactly the piece I wrote, but oh well.
urbancomputing
technology
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Cities that Think Like the Web
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Splendid, timely, necessary, correct.
urbancomputing
politics
citizenship
ethics
economics
october 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: Chicago School Violence Plan Focuses on Potential Victims
october 2009 by Urbanscale
"[O]fficials are becoming more strategic about providing safe passage to school by keeping tabs on gang and clique activities in real time as their turf wars hopscotch around school catchment areas."
chicago
schools
community
datamining
urbancomputing
maps
realtime
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Video: jnd: Best practices for urban screens I
october 2009 by Urbanscale
A brief video I shot to illustrate my post the other day about emergent aesthetic best practices for urban displays.
helsinki
urbancomputing
screens
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Hands On Barcelona's Informational Membrane: Oct 24 12:00-18:00 at Citilab
september 2009 by Urbanscale
All-killer, no-filler urbcomp fun in the city. Check link for attendees. This is going to be special.
barcelona
urbancomputing
fabiengirardin
urbanism
september 2009 by Urbanscale
The Irish Times: Free iPhone application for bike scheme withdrawn
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Via Steph. I'd be very interested to understand just what JCDecaux thinks they're doing here.
jcdecaux
dublin
badmoves
mobile
mobility
cycling
transportation
urbancomputing
september 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
Fred Wilson: Urban Architects
september 2009 by Urbanscale
This will strike many of you as restating the obvious, but when it's a well-known venture capitalist saying it, it has a force that other similar pronouncements might not.
(nyc)
urbancomputing
september 2009 by Urbanscale
CNN: Big cities prove apt for apps
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Networked urbanism dumbed down for the mass audience.
urbancomputing
urbanism
september 2009 by Urbanscale
IBM Smart Planet: Smart Cities
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Ow, all that smartness smarts. It's amazing how the selfsame rhetoric of urban computing I use to argue for more citizen control is deployed here to support more top-down surveillance and management (and more contracts for IBM).
urbancomputing
urbanism
urbanplanning
knowyourenemy
ibm
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Bus.Tops
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Notes toward an art project placing networked LED panels in London bus shelters.
london
urbancomputing
sidewalking
transit
art
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Who Controls Data About Public Transportation?
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Via Berkman, an interesting comparison of municipal attitudes toward transit data. (Broadly: East Coast cities see such data as IP to be, urgh, monetized; West Coast cities perhaps unsurprisingly treat it more like a public good.) Will want to start authoring legislation mandating that such data be held in the public trust and made freely and universally available for the common good of all.
(nyc)
urbancomputing
mta
transit
opensystems
servicedesign
institutions
infrastructure
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Zeitgeist week '09
september 2009 by Urbanscale
If you happen to be in NYC or London next week, there's an imperial god-tonne of amazing stuff going on. I dumped all my links in one post for easy reference. Enjoy!
(nyc)
london
brooklyn
urbanism
urbancomputing
architecture
conferences
conflux
sidewalking
psychogeography
technology
yes
againyes
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Toward the Sentient City: September 17-November 7, 2009
september 2009 by Urbanscale
A long time in the preparation - you truly don't want to miss this show. Gutted, *gutted* not to be there for it.
(nyc)
urbancomputing
markshepard
theliving
sooinyang
davidbenjamin
anthonytownsend
lauraforlano
usmanhaque
carloratti
workspace
urbanism
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Alex Deschamps-Sonsino: On things and the internet
august 2009 by Urbanscale
"Sound, scent, color, dimension, line, pattern, line, mass" v."movement, energy use, occupancy, temperature, humidity, light, air quality, voice volume": Toward a matrix of inputs and outputs for responsive spaces.
everyware
urbancomputing
alexandradeschampssonsino
august 2009 by Urbanscale
Urban Omnibus: AG on Everyblock and MSNBC
august 2009 by Urbanscale
My piece for UO on MSNBC's recent acquisition of hyperlocal news aggregator (and perennial AG favorite) Everyblock.
urbancomputing
urbanomnibus
personal
everyblock
august 2009 by Urbanscale
YouTube: Nearest Tube Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS
july 2009 by Urbanscale
Via Chris Palmieri, an actually-useful, available-right-now iPhone augmented reality application that shows nearby London Tube stations superimposed on the world in front of you. Very, very nice.
augmented
mobile
ubicomp
everyware
urbancomputing
london
july 2009 by Urbanscale
Gumption: Digital Cities 6
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Sounds insanely rich with content, both great and not-so-much. Wish I'd known about it.
urbancomputing
june 2009 by Urbanscale
New Amnesty bus-shelter ad incorporates embedded camera, knows when you're looking at it
june 2009 by Urbanscale
How about a cool, delicious Smirnoff Ice™, John Anderton?
ubicomp
everyware
sidewalking
advertising
publicspace
urbancomputing
streetfurniture
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Liz Goodman: Designing for Urban Green Spaces
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Liz's LIFT Marseilles '09 deck. (OMG can I just say I hate hate hate Slideshare.)
urbanplanning
publicspace
publics
urbancomputing
politics
lizgoodman
june 2009 by Urbanscale
CitySense
may 2009 by Urbanscale
Matt Welsh's urban sensor network project - source of the anecdote about hospitals, explicit air-pollution data and liability.
ubicomp
urbancomputing
everyware
may 2009 by Urbanscale
Mobiscopes for Human Spaces
may 2009 by Urbanscale
Hadn't heard this term of art before.
ubicomp
urbancomputing
everyware
may 2009 by Urbanscale
Ubiquitous Angels
april 2009 by Urbanscale
The "Maneki Neko" scenario, almost, but applied to urban crisis management.
urbancomputing
april 2009 by Urbanscale
Design de Interao em Urbanismo [ Design de Interao ]
march 2009 by Urbanscale
A lovely story about using networked services to find just the right place to live. Hits many of the themes so important to me - fear reduction, information-cost reduction, and so on.
urbancomputing
brazil
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Purse Lip Square Jaw: On mobile cities, Archigram, invisible networks and ubicomp
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Just a little reminder to myself that Anne was all over this stuff before I'd even properly finished thinking about ubicomp qua ubicomp. Also: it's David Green*e*.
annegalloway
urbancomputing
archigram
march 2009 by Urbanscale
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