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Mar
The city breathes information and consumes energy. Visualizing this relationship enhances interaction with the urban environment.
The emergent, unplanned city of Hamburg circa 1850, evolved topographically to resemble a human brain. What’s even more interesting is the recent discovery that “brains and cities, as they grow larger, have to be similarly densely interconnected to function optimally.”
Image from Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson.
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Mar
Visualization of Simulated Urban Spaces: We build on a synergy of urban simulation, urban visualization, and computer graphics to automatically infer an urban layout for any time step of the simulation sequence. In addition to standard visualization tools, our method gathers data of the original street network, parcels, and aerial imagery and uses the available simulation results to infer changes to the original urban layout. /via cvanegas smartercities
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Mar
“The internet has already started leaking into the real world”
Ben Russel (1999)
Urban Screens transform the capacity of public spaces to serve as a platform for user-generated civic and cultural expression, community building, multiculturalism and public engagment in issues related to social, cultural and environmental sustainability.
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Feb
Biocity: The city experience is a web of connected networks and multi layered threaded paths that condition us to the emotional state of the city space. In essence, the city fabric is a giant multi user multi data sphere. The patterns we make, the forces we weave, are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world.
Sensity: Thousands of motes can be deployed across the city for gathering data in wireless sensor networks. Used in large numbers they communicate with one another via radio signals across the network. They reconfigure themselves or self heal, so that the network stays stable. The data is funneled through a system to a point where it can then be interpreted.
