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Your Urban Playground [Video]
A city can be boring, repetitive and grinding at times. It's the same old routine every day, a miserable day. But hey there is no need, it can be so different. Just think, it could be this exciting world of your own. A park, an ocean a dolls house....
Olympics 2012 in London and some Twitter Visuals
The Olympics are in town and about to kick off tonight in a packed Olympic Stadium out in Stratford. The last week was all about gearing up to for London to this big event. There were a few new changes, including the Olympic lanes for official...
The Fastest Connection in the City
This week we started new fieldwork for a GPS tracking project in Basel, Switzerland. Earlier the UrbanDiary project tracked individuals everyday movements in the same context. See HERE and HERE for posts. With the new project the perspective is...
A new airport for the UK - and the world?
The defining airport for the last few decades has to be sent into retirement. Heathrow is at its capacity limit and with a growth expectations of only 1.5% also at its expansion limits. It has however, influenced largely airports around the world...
Crowd Funded Projects a Model for Planning?
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...
Measuring Light Pollution
How exactly are we using light? Are we lighting what we need or are we lighting the surrounding plus everything else, wasting energy? Light has become a resource in our western societies that is being taken as a given available with the flick of a...
4 Cities Books to Start into the New Year
From sustainability to the new beauty in the following four books are put forward to start into 2012. The topics all address some of the concerns raised about cities in the past year or so and all contribute to the current discussion around changes...
Foursquare - Location Based Gaming
Gaming at large scale with the city as the play field has gathered pace with its community adapting new tools and technologies in the social networking domain. The likes of Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare are offering platforms additional gameplay...
The Role of Light In Design
The daily cycles of day and night influence the experience in a number of ways. The main visual information is, beside the amount of light, the quality of the light. There are very different temperatures from morning to midday to evening. Generally...
Architecture & Violence
Space for place defined by practice, where people live and breath is always contested. It is not just, it is to be made, remodelled and reshaped constantly through negotiation. The result is a mix of interests, desires and statements. Aspects of...
Printing the City: The Design Potential of 3D Printers
New manufacturing technologies are tipped to change the world, yet again. Machine based production is since the 18th century a reality and with it has the industrial revolution changed the way products and the making of are consumed.This has had far...
Iceland's Spectacular, Singular Architecture
Iceland is a remote place, being a small island high up north in the Atlantic Ocean is not exactly a place on the high street. The island however, has very distinct characteristics to share and can surprise with unique features. In terms of...
