Future screen technology

Ideation:
the youtube about future screen technology....

Complete Streets

Below is an email from a leading traffic engineer here in Melbourne:


Hi John, Arup, including myself, are doing this work all around the globe.

Re-allocating streetspace and other urban infrastructures to better provide for other users is the new "big thing" in transportation planning. have you heard of the HighLine in new york? you should check it out - really amazing reuse of old freight rail into a public park, and it's been hugely successful by new yorkers. And the time square closure to cars as you pointed out has also been a very successful pilot by nyc dept of transport. In melbourne, there are lots of examples too not least of all is City of Melb's planned upgrade to Swanston St, which gets rid of cars etc.

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ParkingTransportandRoads/Roads/SwanstonStreet/Pages/SwanstonStreet.aspx

St Kilda Road and, more recently, Albert St has been reconfigured to provide greater service to bikes. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/copenhagen-bike-lanes-cause-chaos-in-melbourne-20100607-xqsl.html

There was a lot of hot air when it started up but it seems to work OK now. Other material easily comes to hand http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ParksandActivities/WalkingCyclingandSkating/Documents/bike_separated_lanes_factsheet.pdf

Tram superstops are an example of reallocation of roadspace away from cars. There are plenty of them in the CBD. There is the redesign of Harbour Esplanade down at Docklands http://www.vicurban.com/cs/Satellite?c=VPage&cid=1195447200144&pagename=Docklands%2FLayout

An interesting case study is the area of Elizabeth St outside the market. It won an urban design award when it was installed in the 80s, but over a very short time the award-winning bluestone flagstones were replaced by patches of bitumen following maintenance activity on the services. It's now just an ordinary piece of road. Bourke St mall was an early piece of work done by the City of melbourne at closing down cars to public transport and pedestrian space and you can see how successful that is today. It was done in the 1980s from memory. This has been through a number of redesigns over the years. My recommendation for you would be to talk to someone at the City of Melbourne. Maybe Rob Moore. +61 3 9658 9616.

I think that you might also be talking about the complete streets agenda so i'd recommend checking out this link: http://www.completestreets.org/. Hope this is some help to you. Good luck with your study - it's a really interesting piece of work that i look at everyday! Please feel free to contact me whenever you need if you have more questions etc - more than happy to help.

CheersOlivia

Happenings

Hi guys,

Thinking about a service and user group I remembered different events like the Sydney Harbour Bridge Picnic:

http://www.breakfastonthebridge.com/event

These sort of 'happenings' might be a way forward for our project.

John

Thanks!

Thanks John. I'll check it when I finish to read hundreds of pages of Melbourne Statistics
:)and do some design graphs.

See you tomorrow.

The Adaptive City

Hi guys,

Please read the article below, it is a great piece of writing on the future of cities with the advance of technology. The author is an Australian, Dan Hill who works for Arup and has plenty of other interesting information and writing on the web.

I think this essay will form a core part of our idea and support for the service we design towards the end of semester.

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/09/the-adaptive-ci.html

See you tomorrow.

John

Case study

Reclaim the street

- Share of community ownership of publish space

- “Resistance movement” opposed to the dominance of corporate force in globalization --> People > Car

--> “Invasion” of major road + highway etc. --> stage a party (non-violent action)

Streets for People (NY) 2004

- A “How to” primer for People à “Traffic calming" Slow + reduce traffic speed, e.g.: stepping stones --> slow down traffic

--> Share equally by user

--> Increase walker and cyclist

--> Quieter, safer, friendlier neighborhood streets

Critical mass (AU+ around the world)

- Celebration of vibrant urban life + reclaiming public space

- Bike, cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month

- No leadership or membership

- Drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to cyclists

(something more to read about http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-15-bikes-new-york_x.htm)

Block Party (NY)

- Neighborhoods --> No car

- Change transportation policy --> increase quality of life

- Rebalance public space

- Engage people in working on traffic and livability issues on their street

Street alive (website)

- Promote traffic-free street




I found more articles but i do not have time to read through all of them, organise and analysis them yet.

More link here:


http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutCouncil/PlansandPublications/Pages/PlacesforPeople2004.aspx


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system


http://www.scipub.org/fulltext/jcs/jcs47517-524.pdf

Research Ideas

Hi guys,

I have found quite a bit of information relating to 'intelligent systems' especially relating to traffic flows and also in relation to how mobile computing technologies are changing the flows of information and the systems available. This should help us with the 'enabling' of our idea.

The best source I have found is "Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access", a great collection of essays relating to our ideas.

Chloe I think you are right, we need some theoretical or secondary research in this project, but the majority will be primary research, dealing with users and their needs.

Carolina we will update you on the latest tomorrow. Please bring all your statistics with you we need to start pulling out some of the most relevant to get our project under way.

See you then!