Six Kickstarter Projects for Cities | This Big City
Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. It has funded a diverse array of endeavors ranging from indie films, music, stage shows and comics to journalism, video games and food-related projects. Urban enthusiasts and public spacemakers are also embracing Kickstarter to gather financial support for projects that enhance city life and raise awareness about urban issues.
Here are some Kickstarter projects from 2012 with an urban focus:
(vía smartercities)
SF Urban Prototyping Festival is today!
(thought i had posted about this already, but I guess I hadn’t)After months of planning, we are extremely excited to announce the final lineup of performances, panels, and projects for this weekend’s Urban Prototyping Festival! For the duration of the festival, 4 blocks of downtown San Francisco will be transformed into a living laboratory of urban experiments. The one-day festival runs for ten hours, from 12 noon to 10 pm this Saturday, October 20.
Three stages of live performance, four discussion panels, and three keynote talks will accent the true focus of UP:SF – the 20+ design and technology projects showcasing the ability of citizens to rethink how we use and innovate in our public space.
an urban planner’s and creative builder/designer’s festival! :D
(queued this post up at 4am after just getting back from a show in SF… checked the SF:UP website and realized it’s one-day only—today—and not the whole weekend like I had marked on my calendar.. hoping I don’t sleep the day away and miss this -____-;;;)
(vía humanscalecities)
The urban meaning of street intersections
“Intersections exemplify Lefebvre’s definition of urbanism:
The form of social space is encounter, assembly, simultaneity… (it) implies actual or potential assembly at a single point… Urban space gathers crowds, products in the markets, acts and symbols. It concentrates all…
Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative started in response to the September 4, 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and revised and expanded in light of the more destructive February 22, 2011 quake. It is now administered by the Gap Filler Charitable Trust. (vía Gap Filler)
