TORRE VERRE
Torre Verre is back! When development firm Hines first revealed plans for a new Jean Nouvel sliver tower next to MoMA, the City Planning…
This weekend marked the convergence of transit gurus, software developers, and private and public service experts for the inaugural TransportationCamp, a weekend-long “unconference” presented by OpenPlans with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. The event — featuring group tours of transportation facilities, talks from industry leaders, and self-propelled discussion sessions — aimed to unite transit professionals and self-proclaimed…
Yesterday, a group of urbanists, technologists, designers and urban planners gathered at the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss the future of the crowdsourced city. Four presentations focused on forecasting the benefits, tensions and pitfalls of mining the data …
#OPENCITIES
As our Twitter followers have no doubt noticed, members of the Omnibus team are currently in Washington, DC for Next American City’s conference Open Cities: New Media’s Role in Shaping Urban Policy. It has been two days of …
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Jennifer Pahlka, founder of a non-profit that links city governments and web 2.0 talent, envisions a future in which city governments act more like the citizens they serve. |
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Adam Greenfield ponders the ways citizens call out trouble spots in the urban landscape and asks how we might redesign the performance of that landscape itself. |
Erratic time lines, gaps in outdated information and incompatible forms often frustrate the process of locating and accessing data from city agencies. Even learning what data exists – let alone its availability – may require some serious mining. Besides, once researchers and tech developers get their hands on data, the city may have its own ideas about…
I was intrigued by the post, Letting Off Some Steam, and would like to take a shot at answering the question, “What other infrastructures do you think are ripe for public involvement?”
My observations are based on real use …
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing a lot of people wondering what’s so special about the L train and the 34th Street crosstown bus that allows these transit routes to make known the ETA of the next train or bus? And then, just when civic-minded tech developers take matters in their own hands and push schedules onto the mobile devices of riders, they get the smack-down from…
