If You See Something, Skate Something
This sticker reminds of ’one person’s infrastructure is another person’s difficulty’ a great quote by Susan Star. Think about how a skater might read the city: as a playground, game, or an obstacle course?
Skate & the City. Sex & the City. Money & the City. 99% & the City. There are many cities within the city.
The Joys of Visualizing Urban Networks
BERG London just shared some of their research for Ericsson into the visualization of “joyful networks”, Internet of Things, and our daily relationships with data.
The projection mapping of data ’murmurs’ in the video below is one of those things that I also see making it into our future city interfaces as well.
via unwieldy:
The average New York City taxi cab driver makes $90,747 in revenue per year. There are roughly 13,267 cabs in the city. In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to begin taking credit cards, which involved installing a touch screen system for payment.
During payment, the user is presented with three…
Map of Citi Bike Stations in New York (Draft).
Most of the proposed stations are clustered in Manhattan (Midtown and below) and some small pockets of Queens (Long Island City) and Brooklyn (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, DUMBO, Downtown and Bed-Stuyvesant).
That is plenty of New York left without this service, but it is a pilot phase after all. It’s also strange that the areas getting the bike stations are very well served by the subway system already. Granted, it may be precisely because of this reason and the fact that they are extremely busy parts of the city in any given day that they chose them. However, you must wonder when some chronically underserved parts of the city will get to benefit from a new alternative to driving you car or walking 20 minutes to the nearest subway station.
Hopefully, if the service is a hit, we’ll see them spread through the rest of the city soon after.
New York Cycle Sharing Gets a Name - Citi Bike
New York is finally getting a bike sharing service. 10,000 “Citi Bikes” —all paid for by a private bank— will be available to new yorkers within a few months.
Despite the blunt marketing move of plastering the citi logo on the bikes, the service does seem to have a viable business model for citizens, tourists and the bank itself.
How popular the service becomes in the city remains to be seen and will depend on how much the network of bike stations covers the five boroughs.
The Street Hacker, Officially Embraced
A great idea for an “Open Streets” platform coming from the Open Data movement. Consider it as a temporary DIY urbanism and incubation solution by citizens, for citizens.
Via The Atlantic.
Cities look to me to be our most characteristic technology. We didn’t really get interesting as a species until we became able to do cities—that’s when it all got really diverse, because you can’t do cities without a substrate of other technologies. There’s a mathematics to it—a city can’t get over a certain size unless you can grow, gather, and store a certain amount of food in the vicinity. Then you can’t get any bigger unless you understand how to do sewage. If you don’t have efficient sewage technology the city gets to a certain size and everybody gets cholera.William Gibson Interviewed by The Paris Review, 2011
