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Most Exciting Trends in 2012: Better Data and Apps for Planners

This past year, we’ve seen the growth of community decision making tools around planning.  In my estimation, 2012 will continue this trend and bring more usable, integrated apps to the world of community decision making, giving planners and community leaders a broader and more efficient toolkit for engaging stakeholders in a decision-making process. In the [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: September 14, 2011

A very cool engagement strategy: Harry Potter-style map that reveals new areas as you travel thru a museum (h/t to All Points Blog). Digital Urban shows off a cool augmented reality implementation: incorporating 3-D content, overlaid on the iOS video feed, that can be manipulated through user interaction in real time. EngagingCities thinks through hackathons [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: August 11, 2011

Between presentations at the White House and the Ford Foundation’s 75th anniversary gala (we’ll blog about both of these soon), tons of amazing projects (we’ve got a team in the New River Valley of rural southwestern Virginia at this very moment), and just the general zaniness of summer we’ve got quite a backlog of great [...]

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Transit Information for Better Urban Living

Recently New Urban News featured an article on how transit information and car sharing are making it easier for urban dwellers to get around, save money and shed some CO2 (Smart phones + shared cars = better urban living).  It’s been over a year since Google added transit information to the iPhone.  I blogged about this way [...]

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Google Transit arrives on the iPhone

I knew it would eventually come, but I didn’t realize how excited I would be to hold transit directions in the palm of my hand!  Much of the inconvenience of riding transit is the lack of information.  Google and Apple have just broken through the first barrier of inconvenience by bringing pervasive information to transit [...]

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