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Tag Archives: new york
How’s life? Mapping Happiness
by Hans Pul Where is the happiest place in New York? The above diagram maps “happiness” in the city based on the content of geotagged tweets. The diagram is structured according Manhattan’s grid, where red blocks represent “happy tweets”, while … Continue reading
Posted in miscellaneous, research
Tagged app, cartography, crowd-sourcing, geography, happiness, happy, London, MacKerron, Manhattan, Mappiness, mapping, new york, NYC, OECD, science, TED, UK, well-being
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Urban gardening in Berlin: contributions to city quality
by Hans Pul Although it is still freezing (at least here in Berlin), it is the time of the year for starting planning and planting this year’s vegetables. Around this time of the year, you can start planting carrots, spinach, … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Berlin-Kreuzberg, bottom-up, citizen initiatives, city quality, cookbook, flowers, Frisch vom Dach, fruits, garden, gardening projects, Gärten, guerilla garden, guerilla gardening, High Line, kreuzberg, malzfabrik, mariannenplatz, Moritzplatz, Neighbourhood, neighbourhood residents, Neukölln, new york, pioneers, Place Identity, Prinzessinnengarten, public space, San Francisco, sense of place, social function, Steine, sustainability, sustainable, Tempelhof, Tempelhofer Freiheit, Ton, urban agriculture, urban farming, urban garden, urban gardening, urban quality, vegetable market, vegetables, vegetables market
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Creative Cities International — The Vitality Index (VI)
by Brendan Colgan Last summer Creative Cities International (CCI) launched a new cultural impact study in the U.S. entitled the Vitality Index (VI) [click here for the report]. The study aims to model the “human experience of the city at its … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, boston, California, CCI, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Creative Cities, cultural institutions, Detroit, Distictiveness, downtown, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Linda Lees, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, new york, New York City, parks, philadelphia, Phoenix, pittsburgh, pulic access, Raleigh, San Antonio, San Jose, seattle, sense of place, sustainibility, Tampa, Tulsa, U.S., urban space, urbanism, USA, VI, Vitality Index
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Gentrification brings discord to Williamsburg, Brooklyn – New York Times
By Nils Grube John Leland reports in his article for the New York Times about current struggles in the once-industrial neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We already posted some articles about the topic this march ( 6th march / 13th march) … Continue reading
Impacts of City Tourism: An international comparison of management strategies – Part I
(c) Paul Zinken by Nils Grube The last few months a huge discussion was spreading across Berlin about negative effects of international tourism on the city. “Foreign visitors are being blamed for increasing rents, noisy streets and neighbourhood upheaval“, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, city tourism, gentrification, new york, paris, Place Management, Place Marketing, tourism, tourism impacts, tourism management
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