Tim McCormick 's List: Reading queue

Standard interpretations of city as platform usually involve the idea that the city authority will create the platform into which it will release its data.
“@cityofsound: The City as a Platform - Stripping out complexity and Making Things Happen" http://t.co/pfXLrFmCHN v @emercoleman #technicity

“Building Man is a Multi Stakeholder Co-operative organizing the Building Man festival and incorporated as an Industrial and Providence Society. They’re known as the Somerset Rules, and we couldn’t agree more.

What Places Should Designers Visit in San Francisco? http://t.co/WQwcbLSpd5 @designerbridge @mialoira @eshp @jedmund @morganrkeys

“@transportgooru: RT @driverlesstrans: Urban car concept doubles as a room in your condo. http://t.co/5jrC5GNKOy” #technicity

Trailers by Tiny Home Builders Now Available in Colorado - http://t.co/6eU9oiv71o http://t.co/c7JaMOkW5V

Reich_Dismantling-the-Pueblo--Hispanic-Municipal-Land-Rights-in-California-Since-1850_2001

Under capitalism, the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited http://t.co/fg9RsRA8om This is an interesting read

Marx-Does Improved Technology Mean Progress

Adaptive Metropolis is a proud part of UC Berkeley’s Department of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning Centennial.
Join me at Adaptive Metropolis: User Generated Urbanism Symposium! https://t.co/2UvA7rJEE6 #adaptivemetropolis | Powered by #RegOnline

What's the Latest Development? Los Angeles-based Stir thinks it's come up with an answer to the challenge of getting office workers to move more often: a desk that adjusts its height automatically in response to a tap on a built-in touchscreen.

In the US and elsewhere, zoning policies and other land use regulations are now widespread.
In desirable US cities, property owners & developers influence tighter land use regulations, which can lead to subs… http://t.co/Xhqhuh2glx

As the kiddies head back to school, we at SFGate thought it was a good time to remember that you’re never too old to learn something new. To that end, we’ve collected 10 of our favorite books about San Francisco (and the surrounding region, too, b...

The dream of property ownership has been fostered by Government in the UK for a very long time. Perhaps not as long as in the US, where FDR's New Deal in the 1930s promoted the goal of every American owning their own home: but certainly for over 5...

More often than not, however, my time working outside the home has been spent at a desk in a shared, open-plan area. While I’ve had many positive experiences working in this way, there is no denying that privacy can be restricted and distractions ...
Feeling distracted? Carve out your mental workspace with photos, comics or screen savers. http://t.co/Gr1xWM5Ol7

The fears of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents, who could be displaced to make room for luxury apartments, aren't theirs alone. In many parks, residents, who often own their homes but not the land under them, are treated as second-class citiz...

Last month, I wrote about some organizations that were trying to make government more innovative and efficient. The timing was apt – the healthcare.
11 startups that hope to fix public services in San Francisco http://t.co/1dEvRyVwdx

One obvious application of databases such as DBpedia and Freebase is to use them as part of a bibliographic database, as Wikipedia topics could be used to classify books much the way that Library of Congress Subject Headings are used.

Electronic-Communities--Global-Village-or-Cyberbalkans_Van-Alstyne-and-Brynjolfsson.pdf

Salingaros_P2P-Urbanism_2011.pdf

Negroponte_Soft-Achitecture-Machines_1975.pdf