I’ve joined the Media Lab’s Changing Places group for a week in China to design the future of sustainable cities in Shanghai. China presents enormous challenges and huge opportunities, all at a dizzying scale. 300 million Chinese, the population of the entire United States, will move to urban areas over […]
Daily Archives: October 23, 2012
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Another update from China. Thanks to the Great Firewall, I’m stuck in a Web 1.0 world of email and blogging. Our group spent the day conducting ethnographic interviews of food sellers and consumers in a wide variety of contexts. We met with restaurant managers, supermarket shoppers, rice shop owners, and […]
The potential applications of the civic mapping to empower the citizens are promising, from location-aware participative democracy initiatives such as gauging public support for civic planning, to the reporting of urban problems such as blight or requesting snow cleanup. Listed below 5 projects which, using web platforms, help citizens to […]