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Data Farming: Demonstrating the Benefits of Urban Agriculture [INFOGRAPHIC]
urban farming
Design Trust put together a metrics framework that measured the associated activities of urban agriculture with the known benefits derived from various studies to convince city officials of urban farming's positive impacts.[read more]
A Network of Suggestions
Ever wondered why the suggestions on shopping websites such as amazon or ebay more often than not appeal to you? Most links are targeted and do related to recent activity linking activity and interest together. Amazon's recommendations for products especially books works as a network of relations and starts to groups together similar...[read more]
US Road Accident Casualties: Every One Mapped Across America
Guardian: US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America :"US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America 369,629 people died on America's roads between 2001 and 2009. Following its analysis of UK casualties last week, transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National...[read more]
Visualizing, Analyzing Vienna's Traffic Patterns
Vienna the city at the Donau is rediscovering itself. After decades directly at the iron curtan the city has begun to reestablish and revitalise its former vital connections deep into Eastern Europe. Between 1945 and the end of the Cold War in 1989 Vienna was effectively cut of its pulsing backcountry in the East. It was the Capital at...[read more]
Trendsmap Paints Twitter Maps
Twitter data is becoming a new rawmaterial for representing cities. Visualisations are being produced frequently. The latest addition comes from Trendsmap the online platform visualising emerging Twitter trends. The guys have produced visualisations for a number of cities from around the world plotting locations of georeferenced tweets....[read more]
Data Visualization: Where are the Farmer’s Markets?
Thanks to data published by the USDA, mashed up with US Census Bureau data about population, it’s possible to see where the farmer’s markets are distributed around the US.[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”