A slideshow made for the conference HyperUrbain.2 hold in Paris, on the 3rd and 4th June 2009.

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Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of publicly owned abandoned sites in major US cities, imagining this distributed, vacant landscape as a new urban system. Using parametric design, a landscape proposal for each site is tailored to local conditions, optimizing thermal and hydrological performance to enhance the whole city’s ecology—and relieving burdens on existing infrastructure. Local Code’s quantifiable effects on energy usage and stormwater remediation eradicate the need for more expensive, yet invisible, sewer and electrical upgrades. In addition, the project uses citizen participation to conceive a new, more public infrastructure as well —a robust network of urban greenways with tangible benefits to the health and safety of every citizen.

Street Computing Workshop Program

TheCityFix.com is an online resource for sustainable transport news, advocacy and “best practice” solutions from around the world. It boasts a global network of writers and transport specialists, including engineers, entrepreneurs, urban planners and researchers, who explore environmentally and socially responsible ways to make cities better places to live.

ICTs and the global city are not substitutes but complementary, and often modify each other in qualitative new ways.

Beginning in June 2010, a storefront in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, and in Dudley Square, Roxbury will be transformed into large video screens, providing pedestrians of each neighborhood with a portal into one another's worlds. Running 24/7, life-size screen images and AV technology will enable real-time communication between residents of the two neighborhoods.

The BETTER BIKEWAYS signage system was designed with the goals of easy legibility and comprehension in mind.

The system focuses on four categories of information, each of which is denoted by a specific sign format. These categories are:

• NAVIGATION

• CAUTION

• CONNECTIONS

• POINTS OF INTEREST

The link between the urban plan and the body is not obvious on a daily basis but becomes more apparent over time trough the routine. The daily rhythm allows to connect the physical experience with the memory of the activity.

Montreal's Cote St-Luc Collector, named Oval Flow by discoverers Nel and Andrew, is a collector sewer that drains the streets and toilets of a swath of western Montreal. Like many of the systems recently discovered in Montreal, it's very long, very deep, and very full of combined sewage.