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The above photograph was uploaded to a Google Maps server in June 2009.The below photograph was taken last month and shows the same parking lot but instead of different advertisers on the billboard and mural, Molson M blends digital art with traditional advertising. You will also notice a block of small print toward the bottom.Designed...[read more]

Why it's easy to be social online and difficult being social in our city spaces.[read more]

Could Twitter Help Us Create Smarter Transit Routes? “Traditional city maps visualize just one aspect of urban design—the city’s intended structure, full stop. But add in a layer that visualizes how people actually use the city, and then the map becomes much more interesting. Eric Fischer did exactly that when he used Twitter’s...[read more]

November 30, 2011, Washington, DC: This morning marks a milestone: My 100th blog post. Not only have I made it this far, but the list of ideas for future posts is longer than ever. Funny what happens when you dip a toe in the water. What have I learned through the course of 100 posts? Have there been many surprises? Unexpected challenges or observations? Several of you have asked. Read on for lessons and reflections 100 posts in. (Then come back for blog post 101.)[read more]

Last week, the This Big City and Earth2Hub teams co-hosted the very first #Earth2Chat on Twitter. As it was Urban Asia week on This Big City, we were discussing sustainability in Asian cities, and despite the frenetic pace of questions and answers, we kept track of our favourite moments. And here they are! As with every debate on...[read more]

Photo by Thorsten Becker.Is your city a leader in innovative thinking?  Did you catch yesterday’s Twitter chat on what it takes to be a smarter city? To promote its 2012 Smarter Cities Challenge, IBM hosted a discussion with Stanley S. Litow, IBM’s vice president of corporate citizenship and corporate affairs and president of IBM’s...[read more]

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]

You’ve all seen them, the plaques with years on them displayed around your city. They commemorate people, places or events that are import to the history of the city. Maybe you even stop to read them. Most likely you take them for granted and walk right by. How do we get people to really engage with these signposts of the city’s history...[read more]

Seoul is the capital and largest city of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is one of the largest cities in the world. Seoul proper is noted for its population density, which is almost twice as concentrated as New York and eight times greater than Rome, though slightly less than that of Paris. The use of...[read more]

Following the SFO aNCL, an update to the earlier San Francisco map was needed. The slight redesign of the map islands with changed key and added graphs of temporal elements. The exclusive islandification of the area is enforce with a new frame. This provides more visual stability, allowing for stronger vertical orientation.Regarding the...[read more]

I will be contributing to the CASA seminar tonight, given by Robin Morphet, Steven Gray and myself. It will be an update on the NCL - New City Landscape data collected from twitter. The collection of monitored urban areas around the world has now grown to over 60 location. The update focuses on three elements, data pool, temporal...[read more]

More and more studies are starting to reveal the anatomy of twitter usage. So far it was more guess work as to who is actually using the social-network-microblogging-news-share-shout platform. Earlier the Twitter Fact sheet gave some information on the general usage overall. This earlier research was focusing on twitter's performance and...[read more]