Crossposted from Streetfilms’ Elizabeth Press files this dispatch to headquarters from South America: Every year the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) picks one or two cities deserving of the Sustainable Transport Award. San Francisco and Medellín, Colombia, are this year’s winners. Streetfilms worked with ITDP to document these two cities and we’ll be releasing Read more…
On Friday, Feb 10, you’ll have a golden opportunity to come meet, mingle, and share ideas with fellow educators and GothamSchools writers. We’ll be gathering in the upstairs part of Professor Thom’s (219 2nd Ave between 13th & 14th St) from 4-6PM. The event will be mostly free-form schmoozing, with a bulletin board to collect story ideas and Read more…
We’ve all be stuck with a MetroCard with a whopping sub-cost-of-a-ride balance on it. Too little to swipe through a turnstile, too much money to just throw away. What to do, what to do? Some people know they can combine cards or add value to their card. A lot of people don’t know this and drop Read more…
The OpenGeo team is excited to announce the release of OpenGeo Suite 2.4.4. This is the first new version in a few months so there have been lots of stability improvements and updates. GeoServer: Added Basic HTTP authentication with cascaded WMS servers GeoServer: Support for loading “non-advertised” layers GeoServer: Web Processing Service (WPS) now included GeoServer: Better Read more…
Robyne Kassen and Sarah Gluck of Urban Movement Design stopped in to talk about the body, the buildings and the city; how all three can be in perfect harmony through better and reflexively designed objects and spaces. Robyne and Sarah work solves one of modern living’s flaws – we occupy spaces and furniture that are Read more…
Heading to the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting? We’ll be there. Here’s where you can catch us: Curious about web tools or social media in planning? Frank Hebbert is presenting about web-based planning tools on Sunday at 1:30pm, at “Incorporating Web-Based Tools into Transportation Practices” (session 156, at the Marriott) Want to find out more about Read more…
TransportationCamp is coming to Washington DC on January 21, 2012, after two successful TransportationCamp events in 2011 (East and West). Venue TransportationCamp will be hosted by the School Without Walls, at 2130 G Street NW, Washington D.C (map). Registration opens at 9:30am. The event starts at 10am sharp, and we’ll be done by 5pm. Schedule On Friday, Read more…