Category: Data
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Principles of Ecological Landscape Design
I’ve been busy reading through the new book ‘Principles of Ecological Landscape Design‘, an interesting addition to the growing literature blending science and design in a practical sense. Author Travis Beck is a landscape architect and currently the Landscape and Gardens Project Manager at the New York Botanical Garden, and he has used his horticultural…
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Reimagining Mapping
Always good to see modern cartography – and the unlocking (unleashing?) of potential of digital tools and mobile devices. An interesting short post at Fast Company’s blog Co.Design looks at some work in mobile mapping (Nokia’s Next Platform) and some interesting tools, many that use nested tiling to make them more nimble. I attempted to…
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Sim City Chronicles
Todays NY Times, an article ‘Sim City, For Real: Measuring the Untidy Metropolis’ under the rubric of ‘Bright Ideas’ focuses on the data-driven, ‘Smart’ city – described as “the global drive to apply modern sensor, computing, and data-sifting technologies to urban environments…” The main focus is the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress. The…