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Christine Fisher | Jun 7th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Culture | Region: Central | Cities: Los Angeles, Salt Lake City |
Google Maps has put Park City, Utah - and much of the world - on the map, but Lauren Rosenberg of Northridge, Los Angeles claims the company was “careless, reckless and negligent” in doing so and has filed a lawsuit against them because of it. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Jan 5th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York, Philadelphia |
A new website, Walkshed, ups the app ante as it maps walkability in two American cities, factoring in “barriers” like cul-de-sacs, freeways and bodies of water for the first time. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Dec 11th, 2009 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance | Region: | Cities: New York, Portland, San Francisco |
Mike Mathieu, founder of WalkScore, talks about his new site, City-Go-Round, which collects open data from transit agencies around the country—and tries to convince those that haven’t released their data (ahem, M.T.A.) to do so, for the sake of their citizens and their budgets. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Oct 8th, 2009 | Topic: Governance, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Earlier this week, Next American City, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, hosted Open Cities, a new conference that united new media and urban policy’s top thinkers and practitioners. Click through to read a recap of the event, and to see a slideshow of the proceedings. (
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Google Maps has put Park City, Utah - and much of the world - on the map, but Lauren Rosenberg of Northridge, Los Angeles claims the company was “careless, reckless and negligent” in doing so and has filed a lawsuit against them because of it. (keep reading…)
A new website, Walkshed, ups the app ante as it maps walkability in two American cities, factoring in “barriers” like cul-de-sacs, freeways and bodies of water for the first time. (keep reading…)
Mike Mathieu, founder of WalkScore, talks about his new site, City-Go-Round, which collects open data from transit agencies around the country—and tries to convince those that haven’t released their data (ahem, M.T.A.) to do so, for the sake of their citizens and their budgets. (keep reading…)
