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Digital Urban has a sister site dedicated to exploring the worst examples of urban planning and architecture in the world. The site is open to submissions of your local urban blight. Send us a few words and a photo and we will post them up on the blog. After the first few submissions we may well then run a competition for the worst example to be sent an award for their lack of contribution to our urban environment.
Peter Murphy of the excellent Panoramic VR Blog has put online a virtual tour around the acrylic block model of Sydney. Covering over 1000 buildings and 10 square kilometres of the city it is similar in scope to the architects models that exist in many of the worlds cities.
What is unique here is that at first glimpse it is difficult to tell if the model is real or virtual. It is of course real and well worth a look..
Another update – this time to the phonebox renders that can be found further down the blog. Close up views are now looking realistic although the top of the phonebox is failing to line up for some reason….. Minor points in the scale of Virtual London but street furniture is an often overlooked aspect of Virtual Cities.
A quick update on the real 3D tube map of London. Data on the depth of the tube stations is proving tricky to get hold of due to security issues. One simple way would be to count the number of steps down to each station – so if anyone on their way to work could count the steps down and email them in that would be great!
The map can then be updated as and when the number of steps are sent in..
The Castle
Unit 345
2500 Castle Dr
Manhattan, NY
