January 2011
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Cyborg City
“The city’s digital nervous system, as it exists now, is a patchwork of public and private endeavors, with corporate and government applications that are discrete. There’s one program in the Department of Transportation, another program organized by the guys at Foursquare. The real excitement, for people working in this sector, is the ‘appification’ of the city: What if the city could fuse a bunch...
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uneven internet
telegeography’s 2010 global internet map:
telegeography’s global submarine cable map 2010:
click on the images to link to original site.
related: visualizing facebook
/via: aml7
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Cities in 2035
“Cities will be too big and complex for any single power to understand and manage them. They already are, in fact. The word “city” will lose some of its meaning: it will make less and less sense to describe agglomerations of tens of millions of people as if they were one place, with one identity. If current dreams of urban agriculture come true, the distinction between town and country will blur....
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social infrastructure
“our cities are so congested, specifically in asia. we do not have proper social infrastructure, it means we do not have enough school, hospital, multiplex, shopping complex, parks in our cities. which is the basic need of a city. these places need big land. it is very hard to get big land at a single place.
if we will not reform that situation then there will houses everywhere and social...
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Lagos
“Lagos: the first true mega-city in sub-Saharan Africa, home to between 9 million and 17 million people, depending on where you draw the lines and who’s doing the counting. With an estimated 3,000 more people arriving every day, Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities on the planet. Yet it is set on an infrastructure that was meant for a far, far smaller place. As a result, everything here...
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The Rockefeller Foundation on “the future of... →
The Meaning of Crowdsourced Urbanism - urbanscale.org
In my own thinking and writing, I tend not to use the phrase “crowdsourced”; it’s one of those jargony terms that seems to create more perplexity than light. In this case, however, participants agreed that we were consciously using it as shorthand for some technosocial regime that hadn’t quite yet clarified, but that probably had one or ...
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Vulnerability of large cities to climate hazards →
+info + all graphics
/via: visualoop : smartercities
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