Next American City offers a few thoughts about the growth of real-time data feeds and opportunities to improve the efficiency of city services and quality of life (e.g., negotiating traffic).
Urban STL laments the lack of participation in the “Framing a Modern Masterpiece” competition to redesign the grounds of the St. Louis Arch.
Digital Urban published a report on data mashups and the future of mapping.
Digital Urban also writes about new features available in Sketchup 8 and about integration with Lightup.
Here on the PlaceMatters blog, Jason Lally wrote about the relationship between geodesign and planning, the role of geodesign in facilitating collaboration, and next year’s GeoDesign Summit.
The National Coalition for Dialog and Deliberation writes about the Open Model for Citizen Engagement (OM4CE).
The Mind of Mbuga Njihia describes the winners of the Knight Foundation’s “Knight News Challenge.”
Transportation for American kicked off a twelve-part series – one case study a day – on livability (h/t to StreetsBlog).
