A weird thing about cities is that despite being a densely populated place, there is still a deep, resonating sense…

roughing up digital visualisations of and in cities

Originally posted on visual/method/culture:
I have a new chapter out, in a book edited by Shirley Jordan and Christoph Lindner called…

Experiments with universal basic income in Utrecht, the Netherlands

The concept is to allow people to choose to work more flexible hours in a less regimented society, allowing more…

About half the buildings in Wuzhen are surviving historic structures; a third have been renovated or largely rebuilt using reclaimed…

Originally posted on manchester climate monthly:
MCFly reader Jon Silver on what Manchester – its people and government – could learn from…

Mr. Xi proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt, one of the effort’s pillars, on a Central Asia visit in September…

Originally posted on visual/method/culture:
I’m getting interested in how so-called ‘smart’ cities are being visualised. ‘Smart’ is a recent way…

Originally posted on geography3822:
from Hang Tung Chow, on Twitter There has been no shortage of commentary and interpretation in…

Originally posted on Remember Singapore:
Like the good old Social Studies textbooks (see A Pictorial Gallery of Singapore in 1980), the…

Originally posted on Yawning Bread:
Here we go again. Another film banned by the Singapore government. Tan Pin Pin’s “To Singapore,…