http://vimeo.com/21351764 It is interesting to visualise the bus network transition from night to day, the steady ‘pulse’ of the tube network throughout its service and the Stansted-Heathrow-Gatwick connection defined by the coach network. This movie has been generated using OpenGL. Vehicle trajectories in the animation use straight lines between stops. Waiting time in a public transport stop is defined in the ...
courtesy: park(ing) day Guerrilla gardening. Pavement-to-parks. Open streets. These are all urban interventions of a sort – quick, often temporary, cheap projects that aim to make a small part of a city more lively or enjoyable. These types of projects have grown in popularity in recent years, and they ...
By introducing the ‘BikeMile’, an ‘Air Mile’ system for bicycles, PleaseCycle allows brands to incentivise cycle journeys with everything from cheaper coffee and cycle gear to lower health insurance premiums. Several major employers are already using the system to gamify commuting to work, offering rewards such as free holiday time ...
courtesy: abhigyan singh Game designer Will Wright showed this with his highly successful series of PC games, the first of which was the best-selling SimCity. SimCity and other such simulation games are great tools for stimulating playful thought about how the complex systems that compose a city interact with ...
Frans Masereel, a Belgian graphic artist, worked on a woodcut series on city forms and urban experiences in 1925, which was then published in a book titled “The City: A Vision in Woodcuts.” Almost a century after its publication, "The City" remains an emblematic representation of urbanism pertinent to our times. ...
TED announces the winner of the 2012 TED Prize: the City 2.0. The City 2.0 is the city of the future ... a future in which more than 10 billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably, together. The City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world ...
Most urban renewal projects require piles of cash and armloads of permits and blueprints. All that's needed for James Rojas' makeover of downtown Long Beach is imagination. Rojas is an urban planner who has constructed an 80-square-foot scale model of the city that residents ...
ARCHIZINES is a showcase of new architecture fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative to the established architectural press. Launched by Elias Redstone, with art direction by Folch Studio, the project celebrates and promotes independent and alternative publishing as an arena for architectural commentary, criticism and research, and as a creative platform for new photography, ...
Source: postscapes - "anatomy of a smart city"
Urbanized is the new documentary film by Gary Hustwit on the current state of and debates around urbanisations across the world. A.O. Scott writes in his NYT review of the film: In this remarkably concise film — which could easily have sprawled to 15 hours on public ...
An isomteric tourist map of Reykjavik, Iceland More: http://www.reykjavikcentermap.com/ The Chinese version of Google Map -- mapping major Chinese cities in full isometric glory More: http://gz.o.cn/
Re:farm the City builds and develops open-source software, hardware and platforms for urban farmers. [It] provides the tools and know-how to design, monitor, manage, and share small-scale urban farms. The farms are designed based on methods of sustainable, organic, and companion farming, and local ...
Urbaninform is a documentry-network allowing urban practitioners to document (using photographs with recorded narration) their own projects, ideas and proposals and share it with a wide range of fellow practitinoers, innovators and thinkers, technologists and funders etc. Urbaninform encourages and facilitates archiving of urban intervention practices across ...
At rush hour, two architects and a biologist stand on a footbridge over the highway that runs east and west through the center of this concrete cityscape... To most urban eyes, it is just a hidden canal of trash and feces, paved over since 1952. But ...
luzinterruptus, a madrid based urban art group, is carrying out a series of micro-interventions to draw attention towards and preserve urban flora and fauna. Self-described as "an anonymous artistic group, who carries out urban interventions in public spaces," they use "light as a raw material and ...
Conceived by Laetitia Wolff, "ExpoTENtial, 10 urban interventions x 10 design labs" is a multi-dimensional, curated platform/festival that seeks to foster NY design communityʼs engagement with the city by investigating ideas for a slower (yes), smarter, livelier, healthier urban experience... ExpoTENtial brings designers to the table of serious conversations, pulling them ...
People across India Join Medha Patkar’s Indefinite Hunger Strike on the 4thConsecutive Day Today. Simultaneously, Solidarity protest marches and demonstrations have been staged in Badwani, Madhya Pradesh and New Delhi . The indefinite fast begun on 20th May in the back drop of governments inaction against Shivalik Ventures ... [which] has rendered thousands ...
The city was planned and implemented between 1965-1970 by two Indian planners, H.K.Mewada and P.M.Apte, and an influential group of architects from Ahmedabad with active support from some industrialists. The supporters later tried to usurp the job by bringing in American architect Louis Kahn... [Eventually the ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLPAE9wLEU more: helvetica - a film by gary hustwit
Slum settlements throughout Mumbai are witnessing a similar phenomenon this summer: that of children skipping school in the afternoons... The kids are home for a reason: to collect and store water from the meagre quantity that's released from municipal taps every afternoon... In 'Fluid City', a ...
About five years ago, Nicholas Felton had a cute idea: to create an annual report of his life filled with charts and graphs about the restaurants he had visited and the days he had traveled — just like the annual reports sent out by companies, but with personal details. That idea led him to co-found Daytum.com, which ...
"there's more and more of a desire to shape the public space to include more community space as density goes up, simply because we have to share it," Price said. "Look at bike lanes, look at the boulevard planting... the culture begins to evolve in such a way that is has to find some way of determining what's generally acceptable. ...
The State of Metropolitan America is a signature effort of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program that portrays the demographic and social trends shaping the nation’s essential economic and societal units—its large metropolitan areas—and discusses what they ...
On March 25th, Zaha Hadid Architects made a quarter of its staff redundant, laying off more than 90 employees because of “unforeseen events in North Africa.” The reason was the democratic uprising in the Middle East, and specifically Libya, where Hadid’s new conference center outside of Tripoli had been “put ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_HUYi9aVvI&feature=player_embedded New York City’s Times Square could be considered one of the most overwhelmingly intrusive places in the country. It is a glob of flashing, neon advertisements that tower over mobs of tourists and natives alike, assaulting their senses and overloading their minds. BITcrash44 [, known by his YouTube username,] has devised a way of hacking into Times Squares’ enormous screens using ...
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