Streets | This Big City

Oct

The Digital Life of Walkable Streets

Categories: Data and Infrastructure, Digital, Social Media and Web 2.0, UK

Tags: cc, Flickr, FourSquare, streets, Walkability, Walkable, walking, Yahoo Labs

by Walkonomics

It may be hard to believe, but each day we post over 1.8 billion photos to the internet, thats over 20,000 a second! While many of these are likely to be selfies, there must be many millions of photos of everyday streets and urban places. Read more

Feb

Why Walkability isn’t Just About Proximity to Shops

Categories: Placemaking, Planning, USA and Canada

Tags: Architecture, cc, Land use, streets, Urban Design, Walkability

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by Walkonomics

For many people, the concept of 'Walkability' simply means how many services are within walking distance of a location. While this is an important part of a walkable neighbourhood there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that several other factors improve or reduce the walkability of a neighbourhood. Read more

Jun

How San Francisco’s Food Trucks Bring More to the City than Just Food

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Arts and Culture, People, USA and Canada

Tags: Cape Town, cc, food, San Francisco, street food, streets

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by Future Cape Town

The gourmet food truck movement in San Francisco is thriving. Most trucks focus on a particular cuisine - indian, japanese, mexican, you name it - and this street food is bring life to the streets. Food trucks make the street a destination and not just a necessary function of the city. Read more

All posts tagged streets

The Digital Life of Walkable Streets

Why Walkability isn’t Just About Proximity to Shops

How San Francisco’s Food Trucks Bring More to the City than Just Food