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Hilo, HI: First Crowdsourced Placemaking Municipality

January 12, 2012 by Neil Takemoto
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Crowdsourced placemaking had been a private sector sponsored success in Bristol, CT, but what about coming from the public sector? To many, public sector sponsored crowdsourced placemaking sounded rather impossible, with such arguments as: - A municipality doesn’t do placemaking, or implementation, the private sector does. It’s the... [read more]

Social Media Tracks National Book Swap

September 20, 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus
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Books still carry an aura of mistic knowledge only accessible to whom dares to move beyond the cover and through the sea of pages with waves of sentences down to the discovery of words. There is only little the outsider can understand from a distance, it remains a mystery. The best way to share the reading experience is by swapping and passing on books. It is more than a gift if a read book is shared it is a way of sharing the experience of the story and getting to know what someone else already knows. [read more]

Network Structure and City Size

August 11, 2011 by David Levinson
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Network structure varies across cities. This variation may yield important knowledge about how the internal structure of the city affects its performance. …These results suggest that larger cities are physically more inter-connected. [read more]

The Rise of the Social Food Truck

August 10, 2011 by Jack Mason
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The Rise of the Social Food Truck  via visualoop: [read more]

Google+ for Urbanists

August 10, 2011 by Yuri Artibise
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For urbanists, Google+ allows us to create an “Urbanist” circle to share our links, ideas and discussions on cities and placemaking without boring our non-urban friends and family. [read more]

Facebook Foreclosure: Careful Who You Friend!

July 22, 2011 by Maila Klowe
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According to various sources, the online social network Facebook is not all about fun and games anymore. Property owners in default on their mortgage could be served through Facebook. According to Time magazine, the "Facebook foreclosure" is coming soon to a financially discouraged neighborhood near you. Short term installment loans... [read more]

REBAR Promotes Public Space With Surrealism

July 20, 2011 by Next American City
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Credit: © REBARThought the movement to reclaim city streets was over? Think again. From their studios in San Francisco’s Mission District, the REBAR design collective is churning out interactive, site-specific design interventions that have begun to trigger serious transformations of urban environments, within the United States and... [read more]

Trains On Your Schedule

July 1, 2011 by Next American City
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Getting around in cities all over the world has remained relatively the same over the last half a century: we get picked up by buses or subway cars and, after a few stops and the inevitable delay, we disembark and step onto well-stamped concrete or pavement. The evolution of public transportation -outside of the meteoric rise of information technology- has been a boring, straight line, but the systems themselves, those systems cannot be reduced to linear conclusions. [read more]

SubMap: The Power of Subjective Mapping

June 24, 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus
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The discussion around the subjectivity of mapping and the potential of subjective mapping tools becoming possible with the ever greater penetration of gadgets an locative media is gaining momentum. There are a number of project focusing on the output of individual mapping outputs specifically conditioning the visuals to the location,... [read more]

Projecting Transportation Change in Vancouver

May 31, 2011 by Yuri Artibise
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Easy and convenient transportation is key to Vancouver’s status as one of the world’s most livable and sustainable cities. However, as population and employment continue to grow, transportation needs and trips overall increase. To manage this growth, while maintaining livability and creating a more sustainable city, we need a robust... [read more]

A Brief Green Building Guide to Social Media

June 25, 2010 by Chris Cheatham
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What would you tell a green building insider interested in social media and web 2.0?  I recently had to answer this question, and I thought my answer might be helpful to some Green Building Law Update readers.  I decided to keep it simple.  For me, social media starts with two platforms:  blogs and Twitter.... [read more]

Could Social Media Revolutionise the Planning System?

May 26, 2010 by This Big City
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With social media services allowing people to tag the locations of the photos they’ve uploaded, check-in to shops, bars and parks online, and have geolocation attached to their tweets, it’s clear that online technologies and the city are becoming increasingly integrated, with no signs of this stopping. This data is accessible and is... [read more]