This week we explored how web designers and developers can help city governments serve their constituents more effectively, particularly through thoughtful adoption of apps. Boston is one of the cities working with Code for America to do this, and some of its neighborhoods may be leading the charge. Participatory
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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Erratic time lines, gaps in outdated information and incompatible forms often frustrate the process of locating and accessing data from city agencies.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…
New Yorkers spend their waking lives in an assortment of boxes: studio apartments, elevators, subway cars, storage units and, of course, the office cubicle.
We rejoice in public, outdoor space – dragging chairs around Bryant Park, riding over inter-borough bridges, sitting on stoops, taking the stairs, paying six bucks for a latte…
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Samir Shah recaps “Innovation and the American Metropolis” and calls for a broad and values-based vision to guide design and planning’s use of technology. |
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In advance of a major policy event on technology’s impact on regional planning, Tom Wright and Rob Lane discuss the meaning and uses of innovation in the New York metro-region. |
Food, urban farming and policy are on our minds this week, (by the way — Foodprint NYC is still on, snowstorm or no snowstorm), and it looks like the issues are peaking interest near and far: Architecture Lab reports on…
App-lovers take note: the NYC Economic Development Corporation has presented the winners of its NYC BigApps contest. The winners, who received cash prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000, include the grand prize-winning WayFinder NYC, an augmented reality application that helps users find…
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Designers reflect on how their work explores implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urban space. |
