Popuphood – a new urban initiative and small business incubator in Oakland sets out to revitalize a struggling neighborhood in six weeks by carving out a rent-free space of entrepreneurial spirit.
In Oakland, a popup retail neighborhood for urban renewal
Similar in many ways to Renew Australia’s efforts to connect artists and community projects with vacant buildings to revive derelict areas, popuphood in Oakland, San Francisco is an urban initiative offering free retail space in unused buildings to local entrepreneurs, in yet another variation of the pop-up concept. READ MORE…
Digital Urbanisms: How Segregated is Your City? Race and ethnicity Infographic
from - Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City? | Fast Company
Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city’s areas of racial integration.
Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for…
Using SeeClickFix to Uncover Potholes
Spot.Us is a nonprofit organization that fundraises for independent journalists.
When we approached the Oakland Tribune to see what project they might be interested in funding the Editor in Chief Martin Reynolds knew exactly what topic they wanted to cover: Potholes.
Oakland has a problem with potholes and rubbled streets. The Oakland Tribune already had contracted with a freelance reporter to tackle the story, we were just enabling them to do a longer more thorough piece on the topic.
But early on, we decided that just having a single reporter ask city officials about the state of the pothole problem wasn’t enough. We needed a way to illustrate the issue.
Our idea was the “We Hella Hate Potholes Bike Search.”
The date of the event ended up being rainy, buy we still had about six bikers from around Oakland who got together and after a light breakfast took off in different directions in search of potholes.
Together our small group of concerned bikers identified a slew of major potholes along the major arteries of the city of Oakland. SeeClickFix, of course, was used to organize our map.
Spot.Us believes in the power of reporting, but we also recognize that there are certain types of reporting projects that a single person can’t do alone.
Sean Maher produced this piece on potholes in Oakland and he did a great job. But it would have been near impossible for him to have produced a map of potholes as populated as that which was done during the “We Hella Hate Potholes” bike event.
I hope we can do a pothole hunt in other cities soon. Or perhaps you can organize one yourself?
America's Smartest Cities—From First to Worst - The Daily Beast
AI: Analytics Innovators
This web video series features ground-breaking companies, services and products that epitomize the era of new intelligence.
See more BAO content and clips at the IBM New Intelligence Video Studio. Know of other analytics innovators we should feature? Share in comments here!
Episode 2:
- Earthmine a 3D city mapping service based on Mars Rover technology
- RecycleBank a kind of “frequent recycling” rewards program
- FitBit Tracker a $99 wearable health monitoring device that measures your bodily activity and sleep patterns
