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August 6, 2012
Mobile AR Allows Residents to Visualize How Building Plans Will Transform Their Neighborhood

Sometimes even a minor change in a community can have an impact on its residents. For instance, think about how a proposed building development or even a new turn lane can alter a street or neighborhood. While changes like this are often controversial, a new technology being developed in Finland could paint the most clear picture yet of the outcome of a building proposal.

Sometimes even a minor change in a community can have an impact on its residents. For instance, think about how a proposed building development or even a new turn lane can alter a street or neighborhood. While changes like this are often controversial, a new technology being developed in Finland could paint the most clear picture yet of the outcome of a building proposal.

June 13, 2012
Virtual Dubuque: Real-time 3D Simulations Help Engage Citizens by Capturing A City’s Energy

Virtual worlds can be a valuable means to plan for the future.  For the city of Dubuque, Iowa, a web-based 3D “Virtual Dubuque” means that city planners can take advantage of this type of visualization to get feedback from citizens earlier in the process than ever before.

Virtual worlds can be a valuable means to plan for the future.  For the city of Dubuque, Iowa, a web-based 3D “Virtual Dubuque” means that city planners can take advantage of this type of visualization to get feedback from citizens earlier in the process than ever before.

September 26, 2011
Modeling Human Behavior Key to Water Savings

A new tool for Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) from Australian company eWater CRC has achieved a major breakthrough by allowing users to simulate the way human behaviour impacts household water use. To help combat the highly stressed urban water sector in this region of the world, eWater has recently launched Urban Developer, a new tool to support Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM). Case Study: Caloundra South Flood Risk Management

A new tool for Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) from Australian company eWater CRC has achieved a major breakthrough by allowing users to simulate the way human behaviour impacts household water use. To help combat the highly stressed urban water sector in this region of the world, eWater has recently launched Urban Developer, a new tool to support Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM).

August 4, 2011
How Social Networks Predict Epidemic

June 3, 2011
Biodiversity in Our Cities – The Case for Urban Nature

Did you know that there is nature in New York City?  The five boroughs are rich with forests, marshes, and meadows – more nature than any other city in North America.  Yet these natural resources are threatened by habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation - the same factors that threaten biodiversity everywhere.

Did you know that there is nature in New York City?  The five boroughs are rich with forests, marshes, and meadows – more nature than any other city in North America.  Yet these natural resources are threatened by habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation - the same factors that threaten biodiversity everywhere.  In fact, about one-third of the native flora and fauna in the United States faces extinction. 

March 27, 2011
Community Information Toolkit

If information isn’t flowing freely between government entities and the general public, a complete breakdown in communication renders the best policies and most savvy tools virtually worthless. The Knight Foundation refers to this flow of information as a community’s information ecosystem because a symbiotic relationship must be formed between all entities.

If information isn’t flowing freely between government entities and the general public, a complete breakdown in communication renders the best policies and most savvy tools virtually worthless. The

February 17, 2011
The Powers of Ten

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes.

The Powers of Ten is a classic, just found it on Youtube:

January 17, 2011
Augmented City 3D

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

January 17, 2011
Augmented City 3D

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.

September 10, 2010
Government using Second Life

Once seen as a means of escapism for technology fiends the world-over; Second Life has more recently been harnessed for collaborative purposes with educational and informational goals in mind.  Government agencies from the federal level down to cities and townships are using virtual reality programs as a cost-effective approach to conducting simulations, holding meetings, and hosting strategy sessions.