LiveHood: New York City - social media and machine learning defining similar areas in a city (Carnegie Mellon University)
Blinking City (Marcella Campa, Stafano Avesani) -chalk pastel collage of Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing stenciled onto a wall
via plenty of colour
daniel sinker: Open Data Product Idea: "Civic Navigator"
Post-election, the City of Chicago has been releasing a treasure trove of civic data—from salaries of all city employees to locations of every bike rack in the city and all points in between. For a city that’s historically been closed off from even the most basic information requests,…
City of Toronto: Wellbeing Toronto
monitor neighborhood wellness based on a customizable set of indicators
Streetfilms video about Donald Appleyard’s research on livable streets and the effects of traffic on community
via TreeHugger