New York City’s annual energy consumption map
By the Modi Research Group at Columbia
It shows NYC’s annual energy consumption rate in kilowatt hours (k Wh) per square meter. You can even zoom in and check out your block and your approximate building.
Originally posted by: redeyednblue
/via: landscapearchitecture
Source: redeyednblue
Ushahidi + Crowdmap
Ushahidi es un software que permite hacer mapas colaborativos en tu propio servidor si tienes cierta experticia técnica pej. Stop Desahucios. Para facilitar su uso, la misma comunidad de desarrollo ha implementado una versión que funciona en la nube, no siendo necesaria su instalación y configuración, es Crowdmap. Como ejemplo Syria Tracker
“Ushahidi”, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Since then, the name “Ushahidi” has come to represent the people behind the “Ushahidi Platform”. Our roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis. The original website was used to map incidents of violence and peace efforts throughout the country based on reports submitted via the web and mobile phones. This website had 45,000 users in Kenya, and was the catalyst for us realizing there was a need for a platform based on it, which could be used by others around the world.
- About Ushahidi
Esta será una de las herramientas (hay otras) que usarán en el taller de Video-cartografía, comunicación instantánea y gestión ciudadana de la crisis Pablo de Soto (@pablodesoto) e Ysabel Torralbo (@pituskaya), Andres Garachana (@chinowski) y Eduardo Serrano, miembros de Cartac y La Casa Invisible.
Puedes seguir a:
@UshahidiDev
@crowdmap
Source: ushahidi.com
Guerrilla Wayfinding in Raleigh
“We’re not sure anyone else out there is doing this – mounting walkable direction signs around town, under cover of darkness.
In mid-January, a group calling themselves Walk Raleigh posted 27 such signs at three intersections around the city, and we hear (by reading their Facebook page), that the stunt has actually caught the eye of city officials who may look to make the signs permanent. This is tactical urbanism at its best: a fly-by-night citizen-led escapade whose whimsy could ultimately prompt real improvements to city amenities. So, kudos to these brave urban guerrillas (whom we assume traveled by foot in between installations)”
Source: theatlanticcities
Source: theatlanticcities.com
“How many maps, in the descriptive or geographical sense, might be needed to deal exhaustively with a given space, to code and decode all its meanings and contents? It is doubtful whether a finite number can ever be given to this sort of question. What we are most likely confronted with here is a sort of instant infinity, a situation reminiscent of a Mondrian painting. It is not only the codes — the map’s legend, the conventional signs of map-making and map-reading — that are liable to change, but also the objects represented, the lens through which they are viewed and the scale used. We are confronted not by one social space but by many indeed, by an unlimited multiplicity or unaccountable set of social spaces.” - Henri Lefebvre
polis: Henri Lefebvre on Maps as ‘Instant Infinity’
Note: There’s a “super easter egg” for download in the original post ;)
Via G+ Annick Labecca
Source: thepolisblog.org
How Citizen Mapmakers are Changing the Stories of our Cities
“Individuals inside cities and elsewhere are creating maps for themselves and in fact giving us their own narrative of what a cityscape is about. They are telling us what is important to them, and they’re mapping the kinds of things that previously would not be mapped. It’s becoming part of the creation of a culture of a city.”
/via smartercities
Source: smartercities
