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Crowdsourced urban design – My Ideal City

My Ideal City / Mi Ciudad Ideal – six-month collaborative urban design project from PSFK and W Radio in Bogota, Columbia is using social media to generate discussion and ideas from around the world.  The results will be reviewed by an architect and urban planner as they redevelop a neighborhood in …

INABA on architecture, technology and the city

  Adaptation: Architecture, Technology and the City – great digital magazine from the analysis-based architectural practice of Jeffrey Inaba on how cities and technology are adapting to each other.  There’s a lot of thoughtful content here.  A brief selection:       (p. 43) Measuring the City: The infrastructure of data …

Social media image sizing chart

    INFOGRAPHIC: The Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet –  from LunaMetrics, a cheat sheet for sizing images on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest.  What’s even better is that this link will always take you to the latest information, a really great idea.  Via ResearchBuzz. We also …

Heartbeat of Twitter (map)

      What Twitter Really Looks Like – about Tweetping, a visualization of Twitter activity in real time.   Tweetping is a visual reminder of the distribution of Twitter, the flow of it, the scale of it. It tracks straight-from-the-API info like total tweets (and words, and characters) per …

Software for measuring building energy use – WegoWise

    A Little Bit of Data, A Lot of Building Energy Saved – new software uses utility bills to measure building energy performance and displays it in clear, well-designed graphics.  Here’s WegoWise’s website.   WegoWise can compare how individual buildings compare to benchmarks they’ve created with data from over 10,000 …