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World database of large urban areas, 1950-2050 - Nordpil
We are happy to share data that we prepared for a project earlier in 2009. Using the data request service provided by the UN Population Division, we have assembled and georeferenced the data from the World Urbanization Prospects, 2007 revision. This database represents the historic, current and future estimates and projections with number of inhabitants for the world's largest urban areas from 1950-2050. The data covers cities and other urban areas with more than 750,000 people.
maps  neogeography  world  urban 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Development of a Methodology to Measure Mobility in Urban Transportation Corridors
The objective of this study is to develop a methodology to measure mobility in urban transportation corridors to support project level decision making. Transportation agencies struggle with measuring mobility, and measures are very seldom multimodal. Both VTrans 2025 and VDOT’s FY08 Business Plan stress the importance of multimodal mobility measures, yet measures developed by VDOT to date are for automobile travel and do not include other modes (e.g., transit, pedestrians, or bicycles). The proposed research will first measure the mobility choices that are currently available in a particular corridor; i.e., it will identify the potential in the corridor for multimodal mobility. This can then serve as a baseline for further analysis and for the identification of ways to increase multimodal mobility in the corridor. The project’s scope will be limited to the mobility of people in an urban corridor rather than freight.
mobility  transportation  bus  urban 
december 2008 by vielmetti
New Mobilities: Ce-more about what's happening in the mobile world
The Centre for Mobilties Research (CeMoRe) studies and researches the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of 'mobilities'. The concept of 'mobilities' encompasses both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life.
blog  politics  transportation  mobile  technology  networks  sociology  networking  cities  complexity  transport  mobility  mobilities  mobilizing  urban  urban-informatics 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Urban Library Journal in DOAJ « LACUNY Blog
Urban Library Journal, an open access, refereed journal of research and discussion dealing with all aspects of urban libraries and librarianship, welcomes articles dealing with academic, research, public, school, and special libraries in an urban setting. All topics are welcome, but the editors are particularly interested in innovative services to special populations, including multicultural patrons, disabled patrons, teenagers, non-traditional students, transfer students, and graduate students. ULJ is published by the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY).
library  journal  urban  cuny 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Placemaking Pays Off | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
An estimated 50,000 people don ice skates each winter, and more than a million visitors enjoy the park throughout the year. Workers from nearby local office buildings frequent Campus Martius, but the wide range of activities also bring in people from Detroit’s suburbs—some of whom haven’t ventured downtown in years. Bob Gregory, President of Detroit 300 Conservancy, says, “The quality of the space attracts everyone from rich to poor. The park has delivered on its promise to be a gathering spot for everybody.”
detroit  michigan  campus-martius  placemaking  park  urban  gregory  bob 
november 2008 by vielmetti
QUT | ePrints Archive - Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
I hope that this book will stimulate your mental metabolism with a rich and multi-faceted degustation menu. Sampling the 'dishes' prepared for this urban smorgasbord will take you on a tour de force covering a great range of timely and significant topics and issues such as sustainability, digital identity, surveillance, privacy, access, environmental impact, activism, participatory planning, and community engagement. The book exposes research accounts which seek to convey an appreciation for local differences, for the empowerment of people and for the human-centred design of urban technology. Both contributors and coverage are international. They are not limited to cases based in Europe and America only. Rather, I purposefully sourced chapters covering Asia, Africa and Australia by a most engaging and prolific group of authors not afraid of presenting challenging and controversial ideas.
books  community  mobile  urban  book  informatics  cities 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Database City: notes/linkbombing | serial consign
The curator of VISUALIZAR, José Luis de Vincente opened the seminar with an expansive overview of urban informatics: "Urban space is dynamic information... We've seen this in Calvino, the SI, Georges Perec - the secret lives of people and invisible cities"

Key questions: What is the role of networks and data structures in the city today? How can we use them to alter our perception of the city?

Key points: Visualization is a narrative medium. The crowd is a social and cultural object. Visualization can be realized as soft architecture.
conference  visualization  architecture  urban  information  urbanism 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Urban Web on Huffduffer
Steven Johnson’s opening keynote from dConstruct 2008 in Brighton. Deals with local mapping of topic and the ability to zoom between levels of information based on geo and time. Also about relationships between data sets. Begins with cholera but has other good examples later on, including doing more than just restaurant reviews
via:eby  map  mapping  local  cholera  interview  urban  urbiweb 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Street Fight: Welcome to the World of Urban Lit - 7/1/2008 - School Library Journal
some amount of agitation about urban lit - some about the subject matter, but in equal parts that there are typoes and misspellings.
urban  values  article  urban-lit 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Social melting pots foster technological innovation - tech - 14 October 2008 - New Scientist Tech
Now Samuel Arbesman and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have developed computer models of social networking which show that the sheer size of larger cities generates disproportionately more connections between people with very different personalities and backgrounds. Such bonds tend to foster innovation as they link people with complementary skills, they say.
politics  networks  innovation  socialnetworks  cities  urban  arbesman  samuel 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Journal of Transportation and Land use / Editorial Policies
The Journal of Transport and Land Usepublishes original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use. Domains include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems.

Papers reporting innovative methodologies, original data, and new empirical findings are especially encouraged.
urban  land  planning  transporation  via:kevindoylejones  geography  new-urbanism 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Motor City is Burning « The Edge of the American West
over the course of five days consumed 43 lives and injured more than a thousand while causing at least $40 million in damage to a city that — as everyone who writes about the violence is painfully obliged to note — has still not recovered from the eve
detroit  michigan  riots  urban  violence  party-like-its-1967 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Animal Crossing: City Folk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While including the same objectives from previous games by having players live in and expand their own, unique towns, City Folk includes a city area accessible by bus.
animal-crossing  city-folk  bus  transportation  game  gaming  wii  wiispeak  urban  via:bkerr 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Homegrown Evolution: Our Rocket Stove
Our first test run of the stove was very successful--we boiled a pot of water and cooked some eggs in a a pan. The fire burned cleanly with little smoke except during start up.
cooking  sustainability  projects  urban  diy  green  stove  combustion  rocket-stove 
july 2008 by vielmetti
BBC NEWS | Americas | Urban farming takes root in Detroit
Visiting one of the largest allotments, on a site that had been derelict since Detroit's infamous 1967 riots, locals spoke about an astonishing transformation.
detroit  economics  farm  farming  urbifarm  ubifarm  urban  michigan  party-like-its-1967  motown  growtown 
july 2008 by vielmetti
cityofsound: Transport informatics
excellent collection of visualizations and maps including real time maps of transit infrastructure, using buses as giant spimes
map  bus  transportation  walk  walking  walkertracker  maps  neogeography  design  technology  visualization  visualisation  cityofsound  public  transport  infographics  gps  cities  cars  datamining  city  transit  future  gis  article  sustainability  mapping  travel  data  informatics  infrastructure  information  blogs  urban 
april 2008 by vielmetti
Pruned: Hyperlocalizing Hydrology in the Post-Industrial Urban Landscape
Perry's project replaced the city's combined storm/sewer pipe system with a landscaped curb extension carved out of a portion of the street's parking zone.Perry's project replaced the city's combined storm/sewer pipe system with a landscaped curb extensio
stormwater-gardens  portland  landscape  architecture  stormwater  water  design  urban  via:stormwatergeek  hydrology  infrastructure 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Streets as Places | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
In most examples of 20th century community development, transportation planning has been separated from community planning, and communities have been forced to react to transportation decisions that focused solely on throughput for the automobile.
transportation  urban  urbanplanning 
january 2008 by vielmetti
The City Chicken
useful information and lots of pictures of very small scale urban chicken farming.
agriculture  animals  chicken  chickens  city  farm  farming  food  pets  urban  chicken-chicken-chicken  eggs  birdflu  chicken-tractor 
december 2007 by vielmetti
Ann Arbor looks at regulating downtown design - Latest from the Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
A proposed package of design guidelines that would give Ann Arbor city officials authority to reject buildings based on how they look has some developers and architects saying it could "paralyze" downtown development.
annarbor  michigan  downtown  design  urban  urbanplanning  architecture 
november 2007 by vielmetti
I am the economy. | Greg Trefry
I'm a game designer living in Brooklyn, NY. Much of my personal work has revolved around 'big games' or location-based game projects. I am one of the founders and organizers behind the Come Out & Play Festival.
blog  games  psychogeography  social  tech  underground  urban  web  geo  neogeoludology  microneogeoludology  macroneogeoludology  greg-trefry 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Book Notes: The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup
"These three reforms--charge fair-market prices for curb parking, return the resulting revenue to neighborhoods to pay for public improvements, and remove the requirements for off-street parking--will align our individual incentives with our common intere
cars  automobiles  parking  transportation  free-parking  no-free-parking  neighborhoods  urban  cities  planning  urbanplanning  via:december 
september 2007 by vielmetti
urban informatics | book
Foth, M. (Ed.) (2008, forthcoming). Urban Informatics: Community Integration and Implementation. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. Contracted 28 Jan 2007.
urban-informatics  urban  ministry-of-information  community  community_informatics  cyberinfrastructure 
september 2007 by vielmetti
The Goodspeed Update » Building a Community with Bits and Backhoes
With a background including a 13-year stint as Rice University’s webmaster and degrees in computer science and information architecture, Riddle is no stranger to online systems. After months of tinkering, the website he calls “Mueller Fever” is onli
austin  cyberinfrastructure  development  neighborhood  urban  prentiss-riddle  rob-goodspeed  mueller  mueller-fever 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Norton: feral cities
Other forms of state control and influence in a feral city would also be weak, and to an unparalleled degree. In a feral city, the state’s writ does not run. In fact, state and international authorities would be massively ignorant of the true nature of
cities  urban  urbanplanning  war  decay  crime  corruption  chaos 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Urban Manifesto: Factors that make a city great - International Herald Tribune
What do you really want out of a city? And what can you do without? With the environment top of the agenda in mayors' offices around the world, Monocle looks beyond the recycling bins and congestion charges to see what makes for a liveable city. Tolerance
manifesto  urban  urbandesign  urbanism  cities  city  culture  design  living  newspapers  travel 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Putting people first » Web special on factors that make a city great
“Our mission for this issue is a simple one - we want to improve the urban experience. It’s a tricky enough task for forward-thinking local governments to tackle, let alone a media brand, but we’ve been thinking about this theme since our launch and
2007  cities  reference  urban  manifesto  tyler-brule 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Portland, OR makes list of top 15 Green Cities | Grist | Main Dish | 19 Jul 2007
Portland, OR: The City of Roses' approach to urban planning and outdoor spaces has often earned it a spot on lists of the greenest places to live.
portland  oregon  green  green-cities  urban  cities  walk  walking  walkertracker 
july 2007 by vielmetti
"How to Create Successful Markets" Training Course | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
What are the dynamics behind the incredible resurgence of public markets and farmers markets in North America? Oct 12-13 2007, NYC
cities  market  events  urban  urbanplanning  ubifarm  farmersmarket 
july 2007 by vielmetti
What If We Built Our Cities Around Places? | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
The Great Cities Initiative is the next step, providing a unique framework for professionals from different disciplines to collaborate effectively and for citizens to take part in creating the neighborhoods they really desire.
cities  urban  urbanplanning 
july 2007 by vielmetti
WALKING THE WORLD / What started as a simple exercise routine evolved into something wonderfully demanding that compelled them to see more, do more and learn more about themselves and the places they each call home.
According to his pedometer, he has walked more than 1,400 miles in three years. He's been written up in newspapers and magazines, and his son maintains a popular Web site (www.walksydneystreets.net) that logs his progress.
walking  walk  walkertracker  urban  cities  fitness  community  pedometer  sydney  australia 
july 2007 by vielmetti
CityTalk: Wandersmänner: A Psychogeogrpahic Exploration of Neighborhood
Wandersmänner may be defined as a spontaneous neighborhood wandering, or dérive that captures through the wander's eyes the experience – mystique and allure – of the neighborhood.
walk  walking  walkertracker  neighborhood  urban  urbanplanning  psychogeography  geo 
june 2007 by vielmetti
How to Be Silicon Valley
I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. They're the limiting reagents in the reaction that produces startups, because they're the only ones present when startups get started. Everyone else will move.
academia  business  checklist  creativity  essay  entrepreneur  geography  howto  innovation  startup  trends  university  urban  urbanism 
june 2007 by vielmetti
parole! non-place urban realm
'Non-place urban realm\' was a term bandied around by American urban geographers of the 1970s to describe the city of the future in which motor car-based personal mobility would make place-of-residence immaterial.
urban  cities  urbanplanning  geography  transportation  1970s  automobiles 
may 2007 by vielmetti
order in diversity: community without propinquity
html version via google of 1960s look at the rise of automobiles as a way of expanding communications space, via barry wellman
community  community_indicators  propinquity  proximity  proximity-is-the-killer-app  the-wheel-as-a-producitivity-tool  urbanplanning  urban  cities  1960s  suburbs  sprawl  socnet  via:barry-wellman 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Carfree Cities
Carfree.com - the web site that goes with the book.
Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution
to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.
car  cars  pedestrian  walking  urbandesign  urban  urbanplanning  cities 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Boing Boing: Telerobotic birdwatching
This particular CONE (Collaborative Observatory for Natural Environments) is related to Goldberg and Song's efforts to bring robotic cameras to bear on the search for the legendary Ivory-billed woodpecker. According to Goldberg, the latest massively mult
birds  birdwatching  mmo  game  games  urban 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Robert Moses Lives
Unlike our current crop of Trumps and Ratners, Moses built for the public. That was his great virtue. The problem was that Moses built for a theoretical public; the actual public, especially the portion of it that had the misfortune of living in his right
architecture  city  urban  urbanism  urbanplanning  reviews  nyc  metropolis  robertmoses 
april 2007 by vielmetti
TomDispatch - Tomgram: Ward, How the Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel
As Chip Ward, a Tomdispatch regular who just retired as the assistant director of the Salt Lake City Public Library System, makes clear below, public libraries have become de facto daytime shelters for the nation's street people; while librarians are incr
libraries  library  library2.0  superpatron  activism  brain  community  health  homeless  mentalhealth  policy  society  sociology  urban 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Episode 6: Urban Ranger
Walk to and from work. If you work too far from home to walk the whole way, practice the noble sport of distance parking and walk part of the way. Walk to run errands.
cities  exploration  mobile  pedestrian  urban  walking  time-to-go-for-a-walk-in-the-city 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Prentiss Riddle: Austin: Semiliveblogging the Mueller opening
prentiss covers the new mueller (pronounced: miller) development on the site of the old Austin airport.
austin  texas  neighborhood  sxsw  urbanplanning  urbanism  urban 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Confessions of an Empty-Nester - Zillow Blog
The lack of a car has not been a problem, and we sincerely hope we’ll never have to buy another one. We’ve only needed a car twice, and we simply rented one. And trips to the airport are far less stressful when all you have to do is hail a taxi.
architecture  cars  cities  home  house  living  pedestrian  realestate  seattle  urban  walking  urbanism 
march 2007 by vielmetti
JoelKotkin.com - The Myth of 'Superstar Cities'
The high-price trend is further exaggerated by the large concentrations of "trustafarians," or those with large amounts of inherited capital, in these areas.
architecture  bubble  cities  essay  geography  lifehacks  living  urban  urbanplanning  wsj  trustafarians 
february 2007 by vielmetti
City Repair [The City Repair Project]
do it yourself civic improvement projects in pORtland
pdx  portland  urban  city  civic  neighborhood  oregon  via:dcooney 
february 2007 by vielmetti
City of Santa Monica Parking
awesome mashup puts status of santa monica parking lot empty/full on a google map. but you really need this from your cell phone, right?
googlemaps  urban  traffic  maps  parking  via:thedaniel 
january 2007 by vielmetti
Bacon's Rebellion: Design by Fire Truck
on the urban planning and new urbanist considerations of fire safety and street design
design  urban  urbanplanning  firetruck 
december 2006 by vielmetti
Social_Tapestries_2006.mov (video/quicktime Object)
video of projects using urban geographic information systems to effect social change
gis  urban  planning  action 
december 2006 by vielmetti
Places In the News | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
a mention of car-free ann arbor would be a good connection here. met cynthia nikitin at the nla2006 event
architecture  urban  urbanism  nla2006 
december 2006 by vielmetti
Joshua Barker Homepage
His research focuses on Indonesia, where he has examined various themes relating to his three main topics of interest: urban studies, crime and security, and new technologies. Barker is currently conducting a three-year research project funded by SSHRC an
indonesia  toronto  urban  cities 
june 2006 by vielmetti
yellow chair stories
"access to the wifi network is free from the yellow chair"
art  collaboration  culture  london  network  social  wifi  neighborhood  neighborhoodinformatics  urban 
june 2006 by vielmetti
Exurban Noir -- Ubicomp 2006
With Orange County, the ultimate
in exopolis, as a backdrop, we will collectively undertake this
challenge of understanding the relationship between future technology
comforts and social discontent.
urban  technology  conference  ubicomp  exurban  noir 
june 2006 by vielmetti
Wonderment
a radically rethinking of the meaning of mobile phones to create new
public urban objects and empower individuals and communities to
generate new urban experiences that matter
art  urban  mobile  phones  gallery  urbanatmospheres 
june 2006 by vielmetti
LibraryThing | Urban design collection from "SimPenguin"
excellent library (52 works) on urban design, cities, urban planning, architecture. from librarything
librarything  cities  books  urbandesign  urban  urbanplanning 
june 2006 by vielmetti
Cabspotting - Stamen Design / Exploratorium
real time and composite maps of yellow cab trips through san francisco. view of the major city streets and commercial thoroughfares at a glance. eric rodenbeck
maps  sanfrancisco  visualization  psychogeography  googlemaps  urban  taxi  stamendesign  california  urbandesign 
april 2006 by vielmetti
Urban Atmospheres (from Make Magazine)
Eric Paulos: The Urban Atmospheres work was recently featured in an article by
David Pescovitz in Vol 5 of Make Magazine. "bizarre machines"
makemagazine  make  urban  computing  intelresearch  berkeley  intel  design  hacks 
april 2006 by vielmetti
prematurely grey » Coming Out of the Closet: Part One
The majority of people here have to walk from their car to their front door. And that’s what makes us so weird. We see other people walking their dogs, pushing strollers, going for a run as we make that tiny walk. We see our next door neighbors.
cooperation  culture  urban  thecompact  austin  via:riddle  neighborhood  walking  dogs 
april 2006 by vielmetti
ypsi~dixit: Packard Through Time
a history of the major street that runs near our house
annarbor  urban  packard  history  michigan 
august 2005 by vielmetti
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