Transit App for iOS 6 and Beyond by OpenPlans With the announcement of iOS version 6, Apple has dropped Google Maps and with it, previously built-in support for travel directions via public transit. With your support, OpenTripPlanner Mobile, an open source application developed by OpenPlans will put transit back on the iPhone. Initially, we will offer coverage for almost all transit systems in North America (see coverage details below). The app will also add new features that Google Maps didn’t have, allowing users to combine walking, bikes, bike-share and transit together, finding the fastest and most efficient trips regardless of mode of transportation. The more funds we raise the more features and data coverage we'll be able to add. The way we get around is changing. We’ve spent the last three years creating a trip planning engine, OpenTripPlanner, in partnership with transit agencies and software developers around the globe. It does things other trip planning systems can’t. Now we need your help to bring it to the iPhone! Yes!
URBAN GREEN, LLC - Home OpenPlans | Helping cities work better. Lifeline Programming - online course - Media Action Background Materials - 6th Urban Research and Knowledge Symposium- Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future Documentary Film Styles have a history, like everything else. The following is a chronology of documentary and ethnographic styles. This chronology includes films I especially love, and some I heartily dislike, and accordingly recommend for varying reasons. After the chronology (based on the spectacular work of David MacDougall in his great book entitled TRANSCULTURAL CINEMA), they are listed first in alphabetical order and are then categorized into each of the four major documentary styles-to-date. DOCUMENTARY FILMS / STYLES Revised 3/27/02 1851: Still photographs catalogue East Indian human types. 1868-75: Houghton and Tanner publish THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, photos and texts in eight volumes. 1873: Breeks and Marshall publish some of the earliest photographs from the field to be published in an ethnographic book (photos of the Todas--see Everard im Thurn, below in 1887). 1877: Eadweard Muybridge photographs horses. 1883: Etienne Jules Marey experiments with chronophotography--the photography of people in movement.
The Connected States of America | Visuals Visuals 1 2 3 This page provides our visualizations of the communities based on the anonymized, aggregated call and SMS connections. Please let us know what you think in the comment section below. We are also looking forward to hearing from you about the geographic peculiarities. The Connected States of America Through communication people across the United States (in fact around the world) are more connected with each other than ever. Sensing Place. Mediatizing the Urban Landscape | Haus für elektronische Künste Back to overview 31. August 2012 - 11. November 2012 Sensing Place engages with urban developments, new digital infrastructure and municipal space concepts. The exhibition attempts to follow this reorganization and modification of the public space with artistic interventions and media-based devices. {*style:<b> Artists </b>*}Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen (N), Ursula Damm (D), fabric|ch (CH), Ulrich Fischer (CH), Luca Forcucci (CH, Konzert/Performance), Yolande Harris (GB/NL), Christina Kubisch (D), Francisco Meirino (CH, Konzert/Performance), Christian Nold (GB), Gordan Savičić (SRB/D) , SENSEable City Lab (Carlo Ratti, Assaf Biderman, Dietmar Offenhuber, Eugenio Morello, Musstanser Tinauli, Kristian Kloeckl vom MIT Media Lab) (USA), Mark Shepard (USA), Corinne Studer (CH) Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach. Supported by:
Data.gov Clarity We shouldn't be surprised that people are often confused by Data.gov. It is new, and represents something complicated. When the current budget cuts were revealed to include cuts to the e-government fund that supports Data.gov, everyone starting questioning Data.gov's value. Comments have tried to defend, or sometimes to cast doubt on, Data.gov's value, through a few partcular lines of question. Sunlight hasn't been shy about criticizing this administration, and we've certainly been critical of Data.gov in the past. I hear arguments that someone needs to define the primary audience, that Data.gov's primary purpose must be established, and that there hasn't been enough study on transparency's value. There is sufficient confusion around each of these questions that further discussion would be useful. Data.gov's goals -- audience, users, goals, value -- are as broad as the challenge Data.gov is intended to address: data access for all public federal data. We take that for granted.
Presses universitaires de Rennes - Chapitre 4. La logique sécuritaire 1L’insécurité, en participant à la construction de l’argumentaire légitimant l’autoenfermement résidentiel, est à l’origine d’une rhétorique qui interroge les diverses finalités sécuritaires de l’enclosure dans le domaine de l’habitat. Dans un premier temps, cette logique va être confrontée au discours relatif à la fragmentation sociospatiale des villes, pour être mise en perspective ensuite à la lumière du contexte français. Toutefois, même si le propos est fondé pour l’essentiel sur l’analyse du cas hexagonal, celui-ci bénéficiera de quelques éclairages complémentaires en provenance d’autres situations géographiques. Au total, la logique sécuritaire qui préside au développement de l’autoenfermement résidentiel en France ressort à trois niveaux. 3Si la logique sécuritaire semble revenir telle une antienne pour évoquer la prolifération des complexes résidentiels fermés, cette référence commune n’est pas systématiquement porteuse de la même signification selon les pays ou les villes.
Transition Towns: Initiatives of Transformation | The Wealth of the Commons In 2006, when Rob Hopkins moved from Ireland to the small English town of Totnes with his family and co-founded the first Transition Town Initiative in the world with some friends, he surely never imagined what he was starting. Six years on, there are more than 500 “official” Transition Town initiatives in more than 38 countries, and several thousand more are in the process of formation in many cities, towns and regions across the world. The model of Transition transcends cultural barriers and languages, and works very well on all levels in between the regional and the personal. It is open enough to inspire people from Brazilian favelas to small towns in Sweden, and it offers enough common features to forge global connections in how these people think and act in their locality. At the same time, it encourages them to adapt their practical work precisely to their local circumstances, making each Transition initiative unique in its features and projects. Less is more
P2P-Urbanism: Backed by Evidence | The Wealth of the Commons After decades of central planning that ignored local conditions and the complex needs of final users, and then tried to do away with the commons for monetary reasons, people have forgotten the principal geometrical, human-scaled patterns that generated our most successful urban spaces throughout history. There has been an important loss of the shared knowledge that once let people build humane environments without much in the way of formal planning. The general form of urbanism implemented during the 20th century and the beginning of our own 21st century was large-scale, centrally planned development. Different methods of design came into vogue during this time, each explicitly trying to avoid traditional building forms and techniques that have been used for hundreds, if not thousands of years. This was done just for the sake of “not doing the same that we did in the past.” The combination of peer-to-peer and urbanism That is precisely where the recent P2P-Urbanism comes into play.