Bike-a-way from zach smart on Vimeo.

NAVISCAPING from Mitsuto Mori on Vimeo.

Chrono-Lynth from Shuchi Agarwal on Vimeo.

Just released data from DoT, tip via Nick Grossman of Open Plans.

The Office of Metropolitan Architecture has partnered with the European Climate Foundation and others to create Europe’s 2050 Roadmap for decarbonization. Not much up on the website yet, except for a very clear video, screenshot here:

I’m posting this movie here because it clearly uses well-annotated diagrams to enable the viewer to read explain complex subjects. Overall it’s not our style (the music alone…), but it does make math look pretty.
via Infoshetics:

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

Steve Romalewski of CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research has converted several of the MTA data sets that were released as GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) to shapefile format. Thanks Steve!
Links to data available on his blog

Links to data available in this blog post

Get some rest and be ready with new material by class time tomorrow.

Also, check out this link for in-browser integrated development environment for Processing – great for experimenting!

http://sketch.processing.org/

Title- Naviscaping

Group Members- Minnie Tumrakdee and Mitsuto Mori

Location- West14th Street and 9th Avenue/ Hudson Street

Issue- The confusion of the grid system changes to tourists between West14th Street and 9th Avenue/Hudson Street to  to West Houston Street and 6th Avenue

Design Users- Lost tourists (majority) and the residents (minority)

Solution -Creating lost experience more enjoyable for the users, and bringing the lost users back to where they were.

Design Proposal- An interactive system designed to be of navigational form in aid to people who are lost in West Manhattan.