Tag: open data

This Week in Sharing: Land Use, Minimalism, and Open Source

03.21.13, 10:36am Comments (0)

This week in sharing looks at reality television in Britain, data collection in Haiti, city streets in North America, and open source in urban schools. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Open Data & Better Cities

By Kelly McCartney

03.07.13, 11:34am Comments (0)

This Week in Sharing looks at the upcoming onslaught of open scientific data and several public policy projects bettering our cities. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Libraries, Cities, and Data

By Kelly McCartney

02.21.13, 11:32am Comments (0)

This Week in Sharing brings us open data, driver incentives, micro apartments, and the top 10 happiest cities in the world. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: It's the Economy, Stupid

By Kelly McCartney

02.07.13, 9:41am Comments (1)

Various shades of economic programs and concerns fill This Week in Sharing. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: The Top Eight 'Top' Lists of 2012

By Kelly McCartney

12.27.12, 12:15pm Comments (0)

It's the end of the year, time to look back at the previous 12 months and survey both the damage and progress that we have made with some shareable summations. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Revenge of the Data Nerds

By Paul M. Davis

11.10.12, 10:47am Comments (0)

Opening election data, defining and achieving urban prosperity, and African teens turn pee into power, in this week in sharing. Read more »

Can Big Data Revitalize Public Transit in Los Angeles?

By Paul M. Davis

10.08.12, 6:13pm Comments (1)

NETWORK_LA Transit is a bold data-driven proposal to get the city's denizens out of their cars and redefine how we think about public transit. Read more »

How Public is Your Transport?

By Sam Muirhead

09.24.12, 5:33am Comments (0)

For a country with an astonishingly incomprehensible language, the Finns do have a very clear public transport system, and it's a great example of open data in action. This isn't a universal movement yet – I live in Germany, where organisations love the idea of modernity, but can't quite bring themselves to follow through. Read more »

Open Data Emerges as a Global Movement

By Jim Craner

09.12.12, 8:36am Comments (3)

As open data is embraced by governments around the world, its value is becoming a hot topic of debate. Read more »

How to Rebuild the City as a Platform

By Paul M. Davis

08.13.12, 12:05pm Comments (9)

For cities to remain stable and vital in the decades ahead, government institutions, local economies, and neighborhoods must radically change. Here's where to start. Read more »