Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is now available in all good book stores, edited by Martin Doge, Mary McDerby and Martin Turner it includes a chapter by us on the ‘Visual City’ and is genuinely a must read for those interested in the field. The text covers the impact…
Our forthcoming reader contributed book ‘The Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces’ has spawned a companion entitled ‘The Worlds Best Urban Places and Spaces’ it comes courtesy of Russell Davies and Dan Hill. To quote Russell on our notion of producing a blog reader contributed book: I thought that was…
Our Flickr pool is slowly but surely filling up with submissions for the forthcoming book on the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces. The book is in the spirit of Web 2.0 in that its content is created by you the readers of Digital Urban. Embedded below is a slide…
The latest addition to the digital urban reader contributed book on the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces comes from Dawid Gorny who has recently moved to Cheltenham Spa. Wikipedia describes Cheltenham as a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, England, near Gloucester and Cirencester. The town has a…
Andreas Baeing has uploaded some stunningly grim images of his local urban environment to our Flick Pool the ‘Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces’ for the forthcoming reader contributed book. Pictured above right is is an example of extreme CCTVing plus some barb-wiring, located in East Manchester. Andreas notes that…
This one made us smile, the majority of the images in the book we are assuming will focus on architecture and the urban scene in general but this image with the human element just sums up that sinking feeling of a terrible town. Submitted to our Flickr Pool by Craig…
The latest submission to the forthcoming book is from Martinpfirrmann via our Flickr Pool. This is an interesting one, in Martins’ words – Imagine building an elevated highway over Pont Neuf, Pulteney Bridge or Ponte di Rialto? Well, Tokyo did this to its “Bridge of Japan”. Nihonbashi was first built…
Frannk has uploaded a great image to our Fickr Pool for the reader created Digital Urban Book ‘The Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces. In Frannk’s words: This image was taken as part of a mass observation project of the town of Blackburn in Lancashire, North West, England. Over the…
A quick update just to let you know that we have our first contribution – as featured in the earlier post – and it is already inserted into the book template. Overall design and layout are to be decided but what we need now is your content and your contribution….
Frankie Roberto has become the first contributor to the forthcoming book Digital Urban Book – The Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces authored completely by readers of the blog. In Frankies’ words the image captures the pedestrian subway that runs under Exhibition Road from South Kensington tube station to the…
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