Urban Data Challenge: Zürich | San Francisco | Geneva | Urban Prototyping 03/15/2013 (p.m.)

• Urban Data Challenge: Zürich | San Francisco | Geneva | Urban Prototyping
  Designers, programmers, data scientists, and artists alike are invited to take up the challenge: merge and compare mobility data sets from three cities—San Francisco, Geneva, and Zurich—and draw meaningful insights. Winning projects will showcase the power of open governmental data and facilitate the knowledge exchange between cities. Juried prizes include round-trip airfare to one of the participating cities and funding from Fusepool, the European / Swiss Datapool, for developing the project into an app.
  Tags: urbanism, urban planning, urban design, visualization, innovation, data
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Institute for Local Self-Reliance 03/10/2013 (a.m.)

• Institute for Local Self-Reliance
  The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.
  Tags: community development
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Hypercities and Haynes LA Research Collections 03/05/2013 (a.m.)

• Hypercities
  Built on the idea that every past is a place, HyperCities is a digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces. Developed though collaboration between UCLA and USC, the fundamental idea behind HyperCities is that all stories take place somewhere and sometime; they become meaningful when they interact and intersect with other stories. Using Google Maps and Google Earth, HyperCities essentially allows users to go back in time to create and explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.
  Tags: hypercities, visualization, web2.0, research, techtools, technology, education
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Haynes LA Research Collections
  The “Los Angeles Research Collection” empowers citizens and researchers to use the tools of interactive “time mapping.” With HyperCities, you can explore social, cultural, and political history in Los Angeles over time. The site can be accessed from a web-browser in any school, community center, government office, home, and academic setting, allowing citizens to delve into and create their own collections of mappable knowledge and cultural heritage. Community-generated content exists side-by-side with scholar-produced research data, thereby creating new interactions between traditionally separated domains of knowledge.
  Tags: Los Angeles, hypercities, visualization, web2.0, research, techtools, technology, education
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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