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How much space each person has in some of the world’s major cities
‘On The Go’ Interactive Touchscreen Kiosks Coming to NYC Subways This Year
Control Group — the designers behind the high-tech NYC I/O payphone redesign — is working with the New York City MTA to create new “On The Go” touchscreens for subway stations throughout the city. The new 47-inch displays will deliver real-time station directions including transfers and line alerts, countdowns until train arrival, and service updates, and will also include video cameras, microphones, and Wi-Fi, Fast Co. Design reports.
The Melting Pot Of New York, Seen In Its Multilingual Tweets
Mapping the languages of everyone using Twitter in New York shows the insane diversity of the city’s spoken languages and also where both tourists and local foreign language speakers are congregating.
Haptic Lab is a small design studio in Brooklyn that creates products, spaces and situations to promote embodiment. The word haptic refers to the sense of touch, and everything we design is meant to inspire meaningful connections through that sense.
Map Your Memories, Art Project Asks Strangers to Personalize a Blank Map of Their Locale
Here’s What Would Happen if a Huge Asteroid Hit Your City
Around the time people in California are getting lunch today, a honking great clod of space rock will be zooming over earth at a hair-raising proximity.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 will soar above the planet at a height of about 17,200 miles, above the heads of astronauts on the International Space Station but below the orbits of our geosynchronous weather satellites. The interplanetary cannonball will be so in our face that it might tremble with “asteroid-quakes” caused by the tug of earth’s gravity; it’s set to become the closest asteroid flyby that we know of since the 1990s.
The Neighborhoods With the Most Single Ladies (and Men)
In Washington, D.C., women often complain about the lack of available men. On the other hand, “Man Jose” gets that nickname for having too few available women for the men of Silicon Valley. But is it fact or fiction? In love, as with real estate, it’s better to get the inside scoop before you start your search.
an investigation of its impact on the Tri-State region by GSAPP’s Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University
Imagine you had to build four towers, one of them nearly the tallest in Manhattan, on top of nearly a dozen active train tracks—without disrupting the daily train traffic. That’s the challenge faced by Brookfield Properties, the developers of the Manhattan West project a block west of Penn Station, and their team: The architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, mechanical engineering firm Laros, Baum & Bolles and railroad & civil engineering outfit Parsons Transportation.
One day of activity for New York transit (MTA)
One weekday (from 4:00am to 4:00am) of transit activity in New York, based on the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data made available by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
What would a city’s CO2 emissions look like?
One ton of CO2 would fill a sphere 33 feet across. The office of the mayor of New York City decided to take this information and, given the city’s overall CO2 emissions, visualize exactly what New York’s CO2 emissions would look like if all of the gas was condensed around the center of Manhattan. The screenshots above are taken from Michael Bloomberg’s video, and the visuals are dramatic - the emissions after only an hour tower over nearby buildings, and after just one day, the Empire State Building would be swallowed by CO2. The scariest part of the whole project? New York is only the 5th worst city in terms of per capita emissions.
LEGO New York, 3D Design Based on Maps & Satellite Imagery
New York 3D artist and motion designer J.R. Schmidt created a beautiful 3D LEGO New York topographical design by using various elevation maps and satellite images of New York (as seen below) to properly set the elevation and colors of his rendered LEGO blocks.
The Sandy effect: how Manhattan looks on Foursquare after a hurricane
Popular check-in app Foursquare offers great data, showing the places people visit at any given time of day. The data tells a compelling story, especially for events like Hurricane Sandy.
Take a look at a visualization of check-ins in Manhattan on the Saturday prior to the storm and on Wednesday Oct. 31, days after Sandy hit. This really drives home how Sandy created two towns within Manhattan.
Be a Hurricane Sandy Disaster Response Geographer (while never leaving your computer)
Many thanks to Schuyler Erle from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap and Patrick Meier of iRevolution for creating and sharing this tool.
FEMA needs help in identifying and categorizing areas in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts which need help due to damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. Erle and his team have created a tool using post-hurricane Civil Air Patrol photos to allow for crowd sourced rankings of damage to buildings and the natural environment. The main portal is here while a backup mirror can be accessed here.
The directions are detailed but easy to understand. One ranks the damage as light, moderate, or heavy.
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