Mark Gorton gets on the Urban Omnibus
Check out Urban Omnibus’ Alicia Rouault interview of our founder Mark Gorton about his ideas on streets, people, transportation, life and the urban environment: Questioning the Car: A Walk with Mark Gorton
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Rescape your street!
What if you could create a sketch design of your street, with new bike lanes, pocket parks and more? This summer, planner and software developer Andy Likuski joined OpenPlans on a fellowship to work on his Rescape software, a sketch tool for street designs. Rescape adds tools to Google Sketchup that makes it easier to do neighborhood Continue reading
Join MTA as CTO for the Bus System!
The MTA recently posted its call for a bus CTO–a person responsible for “transforming our customer communications and service management systems via a non-proprietary approach using open standard interfaces, open data, and (when applicable), open source software. The position aims to build off recent progress, including switching to an open data policy and the development Continue reading
Civic Commons: Intelligent Cities Interview with Nick Grossman
At the Intelligent Cities Forum, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs spoke with Nick Grossman about how OpenPlans, Civic Commons, and Code for America are improving civic technology through transparent and open data and formats. The end goal? Improving cities. Check out the video of the interview after the jump:
OpenBag: Rich Barone from Regional Plan Association
Rich Barone, Director of Transportation Programs at Regional Plan Association, stopped by OpenPlans to talk about his work at RPA and the future of the region’s infrastructure. RPA recently published Upgrading to World Class: The Future of the Regions Airports”. The report looks to ways for growth and improved service at the region’s airports – JFK, Continue reading