cities
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Watch Manhattan’s Boundaries Expand Over 250 Years

New Yorkers have spent the past 400 years changing the coastal island they call home. It’s easy to forget (or not even realise) that Manhattan — or Mannahatta — was once a thin, marshy outcropping that protected the mainland from the ocean.

9 May 2013

Cameras

Eight Unbelievably Beautiful Cityscapes And Their Reflections

It’s easy to assume that these stunning and totally surreal images are the work of Photoshop’s helping hand, but all the photographs you see before you, unbelievable as they may be, are the work of nothing more than a photographer, a camera and impeccable timing. All taken by different photographers, the various water-framed skylines extend in all directions to give you a greater sense of the cities’ serenity, bustle and everything in between.

4 May 2013

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Urville: The Metropolis That Lives Inside An Autistic Artist’s Mind

Spending a decade (or two) on a project isn’t uncommon amongst urban planners. Gilles Trehin is one of them. Except in Trehin’s case, the project is entirely fictional, and the scale is monumental.

1 May 2013

Online

Does The Internet Need An Urban Planner?

Physical and digital space share the same problems (and often, the same solutions). So why don’t designers from both realms talk more?

27 April 2013

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Watch This Bread City Fall Into Actual Decay

People talk about cities falling into decay all the time, but it’s usually metaphoric. Not so with this cityscape made of bread — which moulds and crumbles before your eyes.

26 April 2013

Cameras

The Beautiful, Precise Images Of Buildings That 3D Scanning Enables

3D scanning — though it’s been around since the 1960s — has been in the news of late, with Harvard using the technology to recreate ancient statues and MakerBot announcing a desktop scanner last month. But cheaper, faster and more accessible 3D scanners aren’t just revolutionising how we print terrifying models of our own faces. They’re also changing how we understand the city.

19 January 2013

Mobile

Can You Recognise A City By Its Foursquare Check-Ins?

If you plotted out all the check-ins made on Foursquare, you should be able to get a pretty good handle on the geographic layout of a city. It’s like modern day map making or check-in cartography. So do you think you can recognise a city just by its Foursquare check-ins?

16 January 2013

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Show Your City Pride With Latitude Longitude Posters

If you’re a sucker for maps, or you just like repping your city in a cool way, you’re going to go bananas for Mr City Printing’s Latitude Longitude Maps. Ever seen anything like them?

28 August 2012

Mobile

Telstra Plans Massive 4G Network Expansion

Telstra’s got a 12-month head start on its competitors when it comes to 4G, and now it’s propelling itself even further ahead in the 4G race, today announcing a massive expansion plan for the next 10 months that will see its network cover 66 per cent of the population by mid-next year.

7 September 2011

Science

Why Would A Company Spend $US200m To Build A Ghost Town?

New Mexico, where people go to cook crystal meth and disappear into the maw that isn’t quite Mexico, is going to get another claim to fame: a brand new, $US200 million 50sqkm city with no residents. A modern day ghost town.

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