Cityscape and New Media

radarq.net, an open studio which works and researches in architecture, networks and city Cityscape and New Media An open research for CIEE.org and its study abroad program. Research leaded by: → @pacogonzalez: Architect. Founder of radarq.net where I work and research. More: pacogonzalez.info → @cali75: Freelance. Enjoy developing projects around communications, culture, wordpress, design, cities & people | Cofounder of @be_city. More: cali2copio.net Cityscape and new media was part of Culture in context combo summer course in 2012 and 2013 editions at CIEE Center Study at Sevilla.

[urbanfunscape]

Steinbrener/Dempf Sign hacking

[parislemon]

This concept, by Jay Machalani, is pretty much exactly what I want. Especially on the iPad.

It won’t happen in iOS 8, of course. But let’s cross our fingers for something like this in iOS 9. 

[via 9to5 Mac]

[cityscape-newmedia]

Comparison of London in 1927 and 2013

/via fubiz.net /thanks to cali75

[stjn]

[cityscape-newmedia]

stjn:

BRICs — Marcus Lyon:

"In 2008, a watershed was crossed and the world saw the irreversible shift from a global majority of rural dwellers to a new army of urban residents.  Mass urbanisation trends predict that the world’s urban population will double in the coming 40 years. The cities of the developing world will account for 95% of that growth. These are the megacities of the BRIC economies, the urban giants of Brazil, Russia, India and China. These people-magnets draw in rural workers with the promise of higher wages and a better quality of life, but the delicate balance between expanding population and limited physical space defines the human condition of these powerhouses."

[fer1972]

Traffic Lights: Photography by Lucas Zimmermann

[ryanpanos]

Crane Operator Captures Shanghai | Via

Chinese crane operator Wei Gensheng saw many incredible photo ops while working on a crane over 2000 feet above the city of Shanghai, and there he found the perfect subject for his photography- the city itself.

These soaring sky high shots are quite literally breathtaking, especially when you consider the perspective of the photographer, and it’s safe to say nobody has ever seen the city of Shanghai captured photographically in this way before.

[cityscape-newmedia]

Barcelona's #cityscape

A short motion timelapse movie by Alexandr Kravtsov. Barcelona, Spain. August - October, 2013.

[fastcodesign]

A Beautiful Film Of New York City, Shot Entirely By Drone

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[cityscape-newmedia]

NYC #cityscape by drone. Via:

[non-intentional-landscape]

If the landscape can be perceived as an image produced by society then the landscape is created through the medium of communication.

[pacogonzalez]

[cityscape-newmedia]

Everything Is A Remix: THE MATRIX

By Rob G. Wilson.

[spatialforces]

[cityscape-newmedia]

Spanish Ruins

Spotted by spatialforces

The global financial crisis and speculative construction in Spain, caused vast areas of land that are now occupied by abandoned construction projects. All Images from: Ruinas modernas. Una topografía de lucro (2012) by Julia Schulz-Dornburg

[smartercities]

[cityscape-newmedia]

How Citizen Mapmakers are Changing the Stories of our Cities

“Individuals inside cities and elsewhere are creating maps for themselves and in fact giving us their own narrative of what a cityscape is about. They are telling us what is important to them, and they’re mapping the kinds of things that previously would not be mapped. It’s becoming part of the creation of a culture of a city.”

More on This Big City

/via smartercities

[bitchville]

[cityscape-newmedia]

NYC Intersections From High Above by Navid Baraty

/via: bitchville : thisbigcity

[radarqnet]

[cityscape-newmedia]

“Vice-City” Thibault Brunet - adfphoto

[batmanremix]

[cityscape-newmedia]

Wayne Enterprises TV Commercial

By Jonathan MacIntosh (aka @radicalbytes)

Here there are some good points for a cityscape reflection and how companies are determining cities now through the media narrative. i.e. Smart Cities.

batmanremix:

Here is the first remixed component of the Batman Reimagined project. What would a television commercial for Wayne Enterprises look like? Now you can see for yourself. 

It’s no secret that Batman is funded and equipped via Bruce Wayne’s multi-billion dollar fortune and through his ownership of Wayne Enterprises. What you might not know is that Wayne Enterprises is a massive company of truly Orwellian proportions. If the corporation really existed it would most likely be the largest, most powerful company on the planet - bigger than General Electric, Boeing, Chevron and Lockheed Martin combined.

Although primarily known as a military defense contractor, Wayne Enterprises is actually comprised of dozens of subsidiaries involved in all sectors of the economy in Gotham City and around the world (operating in 190 countries). The Wayne family corporation literally built most of Gotham over the years and still owns a good chunk of the city today. 

(…)

Based on this extensive list of properties and holdings, Forbes’ magazine seems to have severely underestimated the value of the company in their 2007 list of the 25 Largest Fictional Companies. Forbes estimated Wayne Enterprises sales at only $31.3 billion which is a ridiculously low figure for such an omnipresent multinational corporation.

Wayne Enterprises - Everything Everywhere Everyday

[wired]

Using a cheap printer and camera, this New Yorker is recreating famous movie scenes around the city.

[fastcompany]

[cityscape-newmedia]

The Faces Of New York’s Subway Commute

By fastcompany

What did 2012 look like on New York City’s subways? From video journalist Rebecca Davis’s perspective, it was a mix of loneliness, intimacy, exhaustion, and, of course, smart phone-gazing. Davis’s video Commuters 2012 is a voyeuristic glimpse of life in New York’s connective tissue, the subway—hundreds of snapshots of regular people living their lives underground, selected from more than 3,000 photos she took last year.

“So often on the train we bury ourselves in something we’re reading or music we’re listening to and forget to look around and take in some great human drama that is constantly being played out in New York,” Davis says. The best moments in her video are of children and of couples—kissing, laughing, or just sitting there. “I hope it makes people stop and look more deeply into all the different faces and human moments we encounter each day in a city like New York where privacy is hard to come by.”

Check out the full story here.