The canonical smart city: A pastiche by Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
Sorta sci-fi from Adam.
Consider this a shooting script for one of those concept videos so beloved of the big technology vendors.
Tags: city
Under Tomorrow’s Sky
Design Fiction at work, imagining a possible future city.
“Authenticity,” an article by Dan Mall
Cute. I gave Dan some advice. He made it look all pretty.
inter // states on Vimeo
A time-lapse video of Tokyo transportation.
Bangkok Underwater - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl seems even more prescient now.
Tidy Street electricity usage | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I really like this idea: one street in Brighton is openly displaying its electricity usage over time.
The Birth of Low-Rise on Vimeo
Building a city with staples in thirty hours.
MTA.ME
The New York subway schedule converted into sound by treating each line as a string.
City Crawlers Berlin
This looks like it could be a good book: a collaborative project to find patterns and stories in the data of one city.
Oh, and the site is lovely and responsive.
Dead Drops ‘How to’ - NYC on Vimeo
I should get out there and make a few drops in Brighton.
Mayo Nissen » City Tickets
I really like this idea for connecting cities to the papernet.
Long Snake City | booktwo.org
Snakes'n'ladders played on the streets of London. Fun!
8-Bit NYC
Nifty old-school 8-bit tiles superimposed on OpenStreetMap data.
http://schulzeandwebb.com/hat/
This is the best location visualisation I have ever seen.
tweenbots | kacie kinzer
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.
YouTube - Arcattack: Faraday Fun- Imperial March
The Imperial March played through a Faraday cage. Telsa would be proud.
Rands In Repose: A Signature Cadence
Heartfelt and moving: praise for those who sprinkle doses of humanity into software interfaces.
swissmiss: urban cup holder
"The cup holder is easily clamped with one hand to posts in the street, then used as a coat/bag/umbrella hanger and a drink holder." Smart.
I've switched
A micro campaign to get people using switched extension blocks, you know four ways, multi plug sockets, this kind of thing, with switches
Wireless City (from The Argus)
Sounds like Brighton is ready to become one big WiFi hotspot.
Stodge.org » Blog Archive » Struck By Lightning
"The moment of electrocution is hard to describe. One instant I was running up a hill, the next moment I saw only white. What I heard was massive and ear-splitting. I felt nothing and sensed utter disorientation."
A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid
Molly has written a great article about CSS and urban planning. The ensuing comments are sometimes thought-provoking, but mostly just plain antfucking.