{"id":9860,"date":"2011-04-06T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:05:04","slug":"world-wide-wednesday-wifi-modern-maps-and-spring-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/04\/06\/world-wide-wednesday-wifi-modern-maps-and-spring-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Wednesday: WiFi, Modern Maps and Spring Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-18975\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=18975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-05 at 12.12.18 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-05-at-12.12.18-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17174\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=17174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-world-wednesday\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/feature-world-wednesday1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments.\u00a0We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Much of the digital infrastructure that surrounds us is invisible, yet it shapes our environment profoundly. A team of designers at the Institute of Design in the Oslo School of Architecture &amp; Design and the\u00a0<a title=\"BERG london\" href=\"http:\/\/berglondon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BERG <\/a>design firm in London have created a Light Painting WiFi Project to reveal the invisible internet ether. Using\u00a0blinking lights which respond to WiFi signal strength, the team used long exposure photographs to make visible an immaterial component of the urban environment. (<a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2011\/04\/01\/watch-the-wifi-visually-stunning-look-at-the-digital-world-invading-cities-video-2\/\" target=\"_self\">Singularity Hub<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a0Attention cartography and urban history nerds: the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/03\/21\/nyregion\/map-of-how-manhattan-grid-grew.html?ref=nyregion\" target=\"_self\">New York Times<\/a> has a great interactive map which allows users to compare John Randel&#8217;s 1811 proposed grid with modern day Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Those in need of a burst of spring colour may benefit from a look at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/color-code.html\">BLDGBLOG<\/a>&#8216;s feature on the\u00a0Arc en Ciel\u00a0building in Bordeaux, France. While the building isn&#8217;t to everyone&#8217;s taste, the author offers a good reminder that sometimes reality improves upon the rendering.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2022In the final installment of a three part series on improving public transit,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americancity.org\/buzz\/entry\/2956\/\" target=\"_self\">Next American City<\/a> identifies key opportunities to improve transit through real-time mobile information. Their suggestions? Make it easy to be good, foster collaboration between competitors, and integrate transit with other local information.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0While we often think of China as the bastion of economic growth,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/cities\/2011-03-31-chinas-ghost-cities-and-the-biggest-property-bubble-of-all\" target=\"_self\">Grist<\/a> speaks to the early signs of an unnervingly large real estate bubble in the People&#8217;s Republic. Massive commercial and residential real estate development in the service of promoting ever growing GDP figures has outstripped consumers&#8217; needs and created an oversupply of &#8220;too big to fail&#8221;\u00a0properties.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from Timo Arnall, Jorn Knutsen, Einar Sneve Martinussen, courtesy of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2011\/04\/01\/watch-the-wifi-visually-stunning-look-at-the-digital-world-invading-cities-video-2\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Singularity Hub<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a World Wide Wednesday worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to www@spacing.ca<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments.\u00a0We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. \u2022\u00a0Much of the digital infrastructure that surrounds us is invisible, yet it shapes our environment profoundly. A team of designers<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/04\/06\/world-wide-wednesday-wifi-modern-maps-and-spring-colours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;World Wide Wednesday: WiFi, Modern Maps and Spring Colours&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[560,6170,6127,319,6177,510,6171,6172,6175,6174,569,6169,6173,578,6176,146],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-author","tag-berg","tag-bordeaux","tag-china","tag-ciel-building","tag-france","tag-institute-of-design","tag-invisible-internet-ether","tag-john-randel","tag-large-real-estate-bubble","tag-london","tag-oslo-school-of-architecture-design","tag-residential-real-estate-development","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-timo-arnall","tag-world-wide-wednesday"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Wide Wednesday: WiFi, Modern Maps and Spring Colours - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/04\/06\/world-wide-wednesday-wifi-modern-maps-and-spring-colours\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Wide Wednesday: WiFi, Modern Maps and Spring Colours - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments.\u00a0We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. \u2022\u00a0Much of the digital infrastructure that surrounds us is invisible, yet it shapes our environment profoundly. 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