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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 by Urbanscale
Core77: Tokyo's new, huge, and very smart vending machines
A little misleading as regards the Japanese technological landscape, but still important.
sidewalking  datamining  retail  streetfurniture  publicspace  urbancomputing  from delicious
december 2010 by Urbanscale
Ascent Stage: Lessons from unmaking urban mistakes
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
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
Uncritical pap; reads like a press release. The Atlantic is rendering its readers a disservice.
urbancomputing  stenography 
june 2010 by Urbanscale
HABITAR catalogue
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
(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
Mac Rumors: Apple Patent Application Details Temporary Location-Specific iPhone Applications
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
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
Creating safe harbors from the all-seeing network (2005)
privacy  countermeasures  everyware  urbancomputing 
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Feng Shui City: Networked Cuba quarter
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
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
"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
Road surfacing with built-in photovoltaics and signage. Huh.
infrastructure  energy  signage  traffic  urbancomputing 
march 2010 by Urbanscale
Urban Screens
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
YouTube: Systems/Layers: Understanding urban space in an era of networked informatics
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
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
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
YouTube: AIDA Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
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
"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
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
City Forward
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
"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
"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
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
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?
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
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
NYT: Chicago School Violence Plan Focuses on Potential Victims
"[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
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
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
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
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
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
Networked urbanism dumbed down for the mass audience.
urbancomputing  urbanism 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
IBM Smart Planet: Smart Cities
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
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?
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
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
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
"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
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
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
Sounds insanely rich with content, both great and not-so-much. Wish I'd known about it.
urbancomputing 
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Liz Goodman: Designing for Urban Green Spaces
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
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
Ubiquitous Angels
The "Maneki Neko" scenario, almost, but applied to urban crisis management.
urbancomputing 
april 2009 by Urbanscale
Design de Interao em Urbanismo [ Design de Interao ]
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
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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