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: urban
Under Tomorrow’s Sky
Design Fiction at work, imagining a possible future city.
Grids, Design Guidelines, Broken Rules, and the Streets of New York City (Global Moxie)
Josh writes about the importance of using rules and systems as tools without being bound by them.
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.
The Transformers at dConstruct 2011 – Hubbub
Kars has written up his (excellent) dConstruct talk. Set aside some time and read through this. It’s worth it.
Adam Greenfield at Cognitive Cities Conference on Vimeo
On Public Objects: Connected Things And Civic Responsibilities In The Networked City.
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.
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
Solving the city.
Mayo Nissen » City Tickets
I really like this idea for connecting cities to the papernet.
URBAGRAM
A nifty exploration of architecture and urban planning that describes itself as "a set of interlinked concepts, models, speculations, probings, essays and artefacts based on urban systems."
The next film: Urbanized by Gary Hustwit
Soon the trilogy will be complete: a documentary on urban planning sounds like the perfect way for Gary Hustwit to follow up Helvetica and Objectified.
Long Snake City | booktwo.org
Snakes'n'ladders played on the streets of London. Fun!
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com
The New York Times covers Everyblock, Outside.in, and their ilk.
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.
Magnum Photos: The Places We Live
A photography exhibition and book by Jonas Bendiksen of densely populated urban areas around the world.
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain movie locations - a set on Flickr
In the spirit of my Matrix recreations from Sydney, here's a photo set recreating shots from Amélie.
Little People - a tiny street art project
Little handpainted people left in London to fend for themselves.
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.
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.