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Monday, June 2, 2008

North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out – we mean it
The city of 4,500 residents has demanded that Google Maps remove images of North Oaks homes from the website’s Street View feature, where any Internet user can glimpse a home from the nearest road.North Oaks’ unique situation, in which the roads are privately owned by [...]

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Transportation informatics

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

If Dan Hill’s incredible post on urban informatics wasn’t enough to convince you that he’s one of the most observant and insightful writers on the topic, then perhaps his most recent exploration of transport informatics will. But don’t be deceived by his claim that this is merely a “quick survey of new informational approaches [...]

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Like Snow, WiFi

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

SURVIVALL, ‘Sur-viv-all’, is a word which reflects the 3 languages used during the project, which formed part of Andre Lemos’ sabbatical research at University of Alberta – English, French and Portuguese. The joint interest of the artists was to reflect on the relationship between the virtual territories of cyberspace, abstract representations of our worlds and [...]

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Neo-Geo and the Mapping of Non-Motorized Transport

Sunday, March 9, 2008

When we cyclists leave it to urban planners to determine where in the city we should and shouldn’t ride our bikes we tend to find ourselves mingling uncomfortably with SUVs, pedestrians, not-so-efficient-routes, and dead-ends. How often, here in Edmonton for example, has the “bike lane” I’ve so naively pursued stopped short, sending me headlong into [...]

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Gazette

Thursday, November 22, 2007

“Over a period of six weeks 128 students from the Academy for Urban Planning in Bushwick, Brooklyn took an in-depth look at media, geography, war, love, and architecture. The Alternative Urban Perspectives zine (9MB pdf) is the result of their visual and textual explorations” – From The Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York City, [...]

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