September 2010
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“Looking at Gielen’s work, it’s tempting to propose a new branch of the human...”
– The Geometry of Sprawl - NYTimes.com
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How Segregated is Your City? Race and ethnicity...
from - Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City? | Fast Company
Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city’s areas of racial integration.
Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for the top 40 cities in the United States. Fisher used a straight forward method borrowed from...
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Bangladesh: Digitizing Land Records to Combat...
I like the comment that organizer of Digital Land Systems [BN] Mustafa Jabbar makes on Blogymate that to make information more accessible they need to make it possible for people to access records from non-internet means - telephone. This is a reminder that urban computing efforts are not always internet based - it can be analog - short-wave radio and etc. - tricia
excerpt from the article...
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“It was the ‘the buying and selling of space as commodity’ that...”
– (David Harvey 1989, Consciousness and the Urban Experience from The Urban Experience, pg 13).