Engaging and Informing Citizens with Household Indicators
Recent ongoing project conducted by University of Washington related to their renown UrbanSim project and Value Sensitive Design research.
Tags: E-Government, Human Computer Interaction, Indicator
Autodesk’s Persepective on Integration of AEC Business with Geo Tech
From O’Reilly Where 2.0 2008 Conference
Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk Inc.), “Convergence of Architectural and Engineering Design and Location Technology: Implications for eGovernment”
Tags: 3D Visualization, AEC, BIM, CAD, Digital City, eGovernmnet, GIS
Google Earth in iPhone
Google launched mobile google earth plug-in for iphone.
The Boston Indicator Projects
Boston Indicator Project:
http://www.bostonindicators.org/IndicatorsProject/
Tags: Boston, Boston Indicator Project, Indicator
Massachusetts Turnpike Air Rights Parcel 7
< Image Source: “A Civic Vision for Turnpike Air Rights in Bosotn”, BRA >
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority [MTA] has leased air space over the highway. The major air rights properties include Prudential Center and Copley Place in central Boston. In 1998, by perceiving the huge potential of urban development, the city of Boston commissioned a group to investigate a vision for the air rights over the Boston Extension of the Mass Turnpike in order to guide a comprehensive plan for reknitting the urban fabric along the highway. There are 23 individual parcels, each of which will be designated by various functions. Boston Redevelopment Authority [BRA] publication for A Civic Vision for Turnpike Air Rights in Boston (2003) that delivers a Strategic Development Study of potential air rights development.
< Image Source: “A Civic Vision for Turnpike Air Rights in Bosotn”, BRA >
+ Parcel 7
< Image Source: Meredith Management >
Parcel 7 is located in one of the complicated context in Boston. . The project is a complex mixture of three buildings, a transit station, public and private parking, and significant public space. The site is the Air-Rights over the Massachusetts Turnpike between Brookline and Beacon Streets near Kenmore Square. The site also includes several surface parking lots adjacent to the Turnpike. The developer, John Rosenthal, has proposed a smaller, 7-story residential building on the part of the site closest to Audubon Circle, then an 11-story commercial building, and finally a 23-story mixed-use building on the part of the site closest to Kenmore Square. The whole development is tied together by a large 700-car parking garage over the highway, and a regional commuter line rail station and public open space.
+ Real Estate Developer: Meredith Management
Tags: Boston, Parcel 7 Air Rights, Public Review