January 2010
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From Ignite Spatial: Boston 09
Jan 26th
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Make: Online : Generate cityscapes with City...
Make: Online : Generate cityscapes with City Engine The video shows a fanciful idea of what New York City might look like in 2259, using a tool called City Engine to simulate a lower water level and added skyscrapers. You can do some fun stuff with the tool. For instance, it lays out the buildings based on the terrain you establish, no matter how crazy — to illustrate this they...
Jan 20th
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The Wrong Way Forward - Triple Canopy
The Wrong Way Forward - Triple Canopy Modern Western cities were built under the presumptions—and with the riches—of the industrial age, and their histories are intertwined with that of the machine and its attendant forms, from economics to aesthetics to urban plans. Architectural historian Kazys Varnelis has insisted on the importance of the network not only as a technological tool that...
Jan 20th
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Data. Our second city | A Smarter Planet Blog
Data. Our second city | A Smarter Planet Blog And yet, there’s another city — equally intangible — being built even as we move on from the Olympic decision and unrealized bold plans. It is a literal second city, built right atop our architecture of buildings, streets, and sewers. This is the city of data — every bit as complex and vital as our physical infrastructure, but as seemingly unreal...
Jan 20th
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Cartography: the old versus the new? an evening in...
Cartography: the old versus the new? an evening in De Balie: “ We have been making maps for centuries, to establish territorial borders or mark safe routes. A map is a model of reality, and the terrain of a fascinating branch of science: cartography. Maps represent social and political choices, which start forming their own truths. For example the Persian Gulf is not the Persian Gulf...
Jan 19th
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Big Brother is Watching You Ride the Bus
Big Brother is Watching You Ride the Bus: “ Electronic passes used to board transit systems in the Seattle region could offer a new eye for Big Brother. According to privacy rights activists, the data in the employer-provided passes can be monitored by employers without employees’ knowledge. read more “ via Planetizen
Jan 19th