Check out NYCFacets the best overall app winner - “crowdknowing” approach to creating an “Open City Metadata Exchange using open standards.” I won’t give too much away, take a look for yourself. via my post to intelligentcity
smarterplanet: 15 MIT Research Projects That Will Make You Say ‘Whoa’
Full Story: CIO
via emergentfutures:
intelligentcity: The exhibit highlights the publication’s growing investment in data journalism but I would challenge the reader to think about how this signals technological changes in the visualization of news. This marketing venture could change the way we, as policymakers, businessmen and planners, deliver news to citizens in a public spaces. Really exciting, when you think about it. - @AAlampi, viewfromthebalcony.tumblr.com
![vanityfair: Shit London: Snapshots of a City on the Edge crossed our desk last month, and boy, is it a funny little book. A collection of humorous photos from London’s dilapidated corners—“a world that is rapidly vanishing [due to] increasing homogenisation of the high street,” in part accelerated by the 2012 Olympics—the book is author/photographer Patrick Dalton’s tribute to a city in decline. This is our favorite snapshot for its punning brilliance, but there are several others we love.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m16utxJpAo1qfy8apo1_1280.jpg)
vanityfair: Shit London: Snapshots of a City on the Edge crossed our desk last month, and boy, is it a funny little book. A collection of humorous photos from London’s dilapidated corners—“a world that is rapidly vanishing [due to] increasing homogenisation of the high street,” in part accelerated by the 2012 Olympics—the book is author/photographer Patrick Dalton’s tribute to a city in decline. This is our favorite snapshot for its punning brilliance, but there are several others we love.
oliverstrand: But Brutalism can be beautiful. There’s the Barbican Estate, a 35-acre campus in a part of central London flattened by the war. Fewer than 50 people lived in the area; now there are 4000 residents. The complex simmers with life, a village in the city.
The apartments are in demand. It can take years to snatch one up.
![theatlantic: An Artistic Comparison of Paris and New York
As polar opposite as Paris and New York may seem at times, it’s hard to love one city and hate the other. Each is complex in its offerings, diverse in its appeal, and the debate over which city is supreme evidently warrants its own blog. Vahram Muratyan is the author and artist behind Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities, a blog that pits the pride and joy of both cities against each other in a magnificent series of minimalist prints. Through colorful graphics that border on 8-bit simplicity, Paris and New York come head to head, making it harder than ever to choose which city does it best. Read more.
[Image: Vahram Muratyan]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lympc9nGCW1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
theatlantic: An Artistic Comparison of Paris and New York
As polar opposite as Paris and New York may seem at times, it’s hard to love one city and hate the other. Each is complex in its offerings, diverse in its appeal, and the debate over which city is supreme evidently warrants its own blog. Vahram Muratyan is the author and artist behind Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities, a blog that pits the pride and joy of both cities against each other in a magnificent series of minimalist prints. Through colorful graphics that border on 8-bit simplicity, Paris and New York come head to head, making it harder than ever to choose which city does it best. Read more.
[Image: Vahram Muratyan]
