Who’s Got the Worst Urban Sprawl?
Ring Roads of the world. An urban visualization by Thumb curated by Rice University School of Architecture, Houston.
/via:datavis:global-culture
(via radarqnet)
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Who’s Got the Worst Urban Sprawl?
Ring Roads of the world. An urban visualization by Thumb curated by Rice University School of Architecture, Houston.
/via:datavis:global-culture
(via radarqnet)
La Sinfonía de la Ciencia, la Poesía de la Realidad (por Dawkings, Sagan y otros):
Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)
Representación espacio-temporal del mundo fantástico y del ciencia ficción.
The modern metropolis can often feel like a social archipelago – fragmented islands of social activity separated by large areas dedicated to commercial workplaces, flows of vehicles, residential sprawl or industrial sites.
These islands of high density social encounter can be mapped using emerging data from location-based networks such as Foursquare. By visualising the aggregate data produced by these social networks, we can see how social activity in a city is distributed.
In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city.
Excerpt from archipelago by urbagram.net/via:global-culture
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Urban Pioneers in the 60’s: Back to the city
“Interesting piece in the New York Times. It tells the story of people settling in New York in the late 60’s when cities were considered to be dying. The article nicely illustrates the life cycle of urban environments and how pioneers are needed to trigger gentrification.”
/via:citybreaths
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Steve Duncan, Urban Underground Explorer
Steve Duncan explores the vast underground drainage system… [of] New York…
/vía @urbain_ (URBAIN trop URBAIN)
