The Open Planning Project is partnering with the PenTales Storytelling Projects to develop an interactive web app for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The application will serve as an interactive platform for New Yorkers of all ages to share and collaborate on stories they have produced through hand-writing, digital-writing, photography, moving Read more…
For the end of this year, Streetfilms decided to do something fun: ask some of the most influential livable streets advocates, personalities, journalists and web folk which of the 90 films we produced this year impacted them most. Since we hit our millionth visitor this week and have recorded close to 2.5 million videos plays Read more…
There’s a nice post from David Eaves today on the need for a “MuniForge” — a repository for open source municipal software. Without getting too into the details, I wanted to point out one line that really struck a chord with me, discussing the conundrum that governments find themselves in when procuring proprietary software: …most Read more…
At last night’s PlanningTech workshop, we diagrammed out planning processes to see where the insertion of technology might have been helpful. The processes we looked at ranged from seemingly simple (getting a bike rack installed on your street) to massively complex (advocating for funding for MTA’s capital plan). Keep an eye out for digitized versions Read more…