exploring and expanding territory
- MIT’s ahead
http://senseable.mit.edu/
- Ecocities of Tomorrow: Can Foster + Partners’ Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly Sustainable?
”With over a third of the world’s cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world’s tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the world’s most sustainable city. Masdar City, a $22 billion initiative to build a brand new, […]
- City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai
“Designed for one of the biggest developers in the United Arab Emirates, Nakheel, Mr. Koolhaas’s master plan for the proposed 1.5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City in Dubai would simulate the density of Manhattan on an artificial island just off the Persian Gulf. A mix of nondescript towers and occasional bold architectural statements, it would establish Dubai as […]
- Social Networking tools - popularity map
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-651865,54-999097@51-999297,0.html
- Vancouver Density Map
http://regardingplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/cov_densitymap_mid.jpg
- One Block Radius
http://oneblockradius.org/obr.html
A really interesting mapping project from New York.
- Every Bus Stop in Surrey BC - Sylvia Grace Borda
http://www.artengine.ca/~busstop/
An artist’s mapping of a transportation network.
I couldn’t get the slideshow to work though…?
- street level google
street level google
- GVRD Maps
From the GVRD Livable Region Strategic Plan. The maps are of questionable graphic quality, but might be good data sets to look at.
http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/growth/maps.htm
- chicago again
chicago mapped, nice
