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Open Source Urbanism – Rethinking public space in an age of pervasive...
Open Source Urbanism – project website, initiated by Rory Hyde and Scott Mitchell.
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Destinations
A couple of years ago, the French National Railways Network (SNCF) ran this ad campaign ironically subtitled “luckily, we give you more options than just the train”, to publicise the lesser-known...
View ArticleMarcher, parler – Sur la fonction énonciative de la marche.
L’acte de marcher est à l’espace ce que l’énonciation est à la langue: par cette affirmation, de Certeau a attribué à la marche une triple fonction « énonciative » : un procès d’appropriation du...
View ArticleBaudelaire, on the figure of the flâneur
“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of the birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate...
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Interpréter la ville : correspondances / glissements d’espaces
Entre les villes, celle où je vis, celles où j’ai vécu, celles que je ne connais pas encore, se tisse tout un réseau de connexions et de renversements, d’allusions et de proximités pressenties. Notre...
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Live train map for the London Underground
This map shows all trains (yellow pins) on the London Underground network in approximately real time. Fetching live departure data from the TfL API, and placing it onto a Google map, this live map...
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The Mappiness project: mapping happiness across space in the UK
mappiness is a research project created by George MacKerron and Susana Mourato of the Department of Geography & Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), designed...
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FM Radio Map (2006) – Simon Elvins
Site-specific map plotting the location of FM commercial and pirate radio stations within London. Power lines are drawn in pencil on the back of the map which conduct the electricity from the radio to...
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Alternative Tube maps
A week after the much dreaded London tube strike, I thought I would post here these odd maps of the undeground, for those seeking ‘alternative’ ways to travel when the tube is shut! Rude map: Anagram...
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