Tag Archives: urban planning

NYC Digital City Road Map

May 19, 2011 – 11:06 am

via nyc.gov Beyond the press about NYC partnerships with consumer internet companies like Foursquare and Tumblr, there is a lot of great information in here about increasing citizen access to technology, opening up government data, and supporting a thriving tech ecosystem.

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311 for new ideas

November 27, 2010 – 4:44 am

What if there were a way to transform complaints into something positive and productive? What if we reframed the exchange to be less about adversity and more about cooperation and action? What if citizens were encouraged to offer their thoughts on how things from transit systems to city parks might be improved — as opposed [...]

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Four Asian ports dominate global container shipping

November 13, 2010 – 2:13 pm

via businessinsider.com For perspective, the trade volume at the Ports of LA and Long Beach combined are roughly equal to the container trade of Qingdao.

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Streetfilms: how-to videos for livable streets

January 8, 2009 – 12:07 am

This is a great concept – Streetfilms makes short, simple videos about what works and what isn’t working in urban transport. Their three-minute video on “bike corral” parking spaces in Portland turned a concept that might otherwise be buried in a dry urban planning white paper into an illuminating, compelling clip. I find there is [...]

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Envisioning the future of Bombay’s slums

March 4, 2008 – 3:31 pm

Urban Typhoon is a participatory urban planning workshop on the future of the Koliwada region of Dharavi, Mumbai’s staggeringly large and impossibly dense million-resident slum. The objective is to produce creative alternatives for the future of a neighborhood threatened by a redevelopment plan of the government as well as a multimedia testimony to the unique [...]

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