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Does the Hilliness of San Francisco affect it’s Walkability?

May 16, 2012 by Adam Davies
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San Francisco is famous for its steep hills,but they can also be a real pain to walk up! However, walkability isn’t just about hilliness or proximity to shops, its a combination of many different factors. So how walkable is the city really? [read more]

Russian Crowdsourcing Platforms aim to Solve Local Urban Problems

May 4, 2012 by This Big City
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Solving problems at the local level, the kind encountered by inhabitants of big cities and regional centers, is becoming more and more feasible thanks to projects based on crowdsourcing technology. Crowdsourcing is getting groups of people involved in the discussion and resolution of all sorts of different problems, ranging from... [read more]

Crowd Funded Projects a Model for Planning?

March 19, 2012 by Fabian Neuhaus
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The internet has opened up new resources for funding opportunities. Platforms to advertise projects and find sponsors and funders are developing fast. On such platform is Kickstarter, where developers can promote their project and ask for funding to develop prototyps and deliver products. Others are Go4funds, JustGiving or Profunder.... [read more]

Inclusive Planning: How Can Indian Cities Lead the Way?

February 17, 2012 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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Can India transform its planning practices to equally represent the voices of the most marginalized groups? Photo by ILRI. The urbanization boom in India is not taking place without heated discussions and an attempt at inclusive planning. If crafted correctly, Indian cities can serve as role models in participatory planning. In fact,... [read more]

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]

Town Crowdsources Green Solutions

July 14, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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There’s a plethora of books on crowdsourcing out there, but only one documents the crowdsourcing of a city’s entire downtown. In other words, it shows you how far crowdsourcing has come along, from T-shirts to now cities. Here’s the full excerpt from the book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing by Aliza Sherman, published July... [read more]

Crowdsourcing a ‘Better Block’ in Memphis

May 23, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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A New Face for an Old Broad from Josh Beckemeyer on Vimeo.Inspired by the Better Block Program in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas that crowdsourced a weekend demonstration of what a downtown street should be like, Memphis hosted their own last November. Located on Broad Street, the event, “A New Face for Old Broad“, attracting 13,000 attendees... [read more]

Bristol crowdsources piazza into downtown plan

May 12, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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People often ask, “How does crowdsourced placemaking work in the real world?“ This is best answered via real world examples, such as the piazza in Bristol, Connecticut (pop. 61,000) . As you can see in the December 30, 2010 story, “Blending online and face-face crowdsourcing“, the Bristol survey was just launching, with “A plaza/piazza”... [read more]

Crowd-Sourcing Design: What Would You Change About NYC?

April 12, 2011 by polis blog
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It began as a typical design competition. The Institute for Urban Design in New York would select five sites – one in each borough – and issue a call for proposals to architects and planners. Winners would be featured at the first annual Urban Design Week, a public festival that the Institute is planning, along with other partners, for... [read more]

The state of crowdsourced placemaking

February 13, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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Being that there really is no other resource on crowdsourced placemaking, here’s a brief update on how the field is progressing, with an invite for others to contribute their own updates. Permanent projects. - We’ve got a whammy of a real project in Bristol, Connecticut, pop. 61,000… a $1.2 billion downtown revitalization where the crowd... [read more]

Crowdsourced placemaking FAQ

December 10, 2010 by Neil Takemoto
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Crowdsourced placemaking is a fun, exciting way people can help shape the kinds of places in their neighborhoods they’ll be passionate for. To understand what crowdsourced placemaking is in depth, let’s answer the most commonly asked questions… What is a one-sentence definition of crowdsourced placemaking? The act of outsourcing tasks,... [read more]

"What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York"

November 25, 2010 by polis blog
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"[...] the hundreds of millions of calls also represent a huge pool of data to be collected, parsed, and transformed into usable intelligence. Perhaps even more exciting is the new ecosystem of startups, inspired by New York’s success and empowered by 21st-century technology, that has emerged to create innovative ways for residents to... [read more]