The 5-minute walk

The 5-minute walk, also known as the “pedestrian shed” is considered to be the distance people are willing to walk before opting to drive. It is used to determine the location of schools, measure accessibility to public open space or even to define the sidewalk width.

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Mapping Urban Data: Course Preview

We are excited to share with you a preview of our video course Mapping Urban Data!

The course covers the whole process of building an interactive web map: from urban data exploration and design principles to building the UI and adding interactivity with JavaScript.

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Interactive notebooks for data analysis and visualization

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The representation of time in information design

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The use of color in maps

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Global Trends of Urbanization

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Data Urbanism

We refer to the process of making urban data visible, accessible and actionable as Data Urbanism. [...]

Visualizing Pedestrian Activity in the City of Melbourne

Pedestrian activity is a direct reflection of the city’s livability and vibrancy. The variety of factors inclining [...]

Location + time: urban data visualization

The most common ways to visually organize information are based on location and time. In this interactive story, we take you through common techniques for visualizing time series data.

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Inspiration

Graphic notations, imaginary cities and a blueprint for autonomous urbanism

An inspirational selection of flow maps, graphic notations, imaginary cities and a blueprint for autonomous [...]

Geo data in Grasshopper, the Beauty of Data Visualizations and the Future of our Cities

This is another post in the Morphocode Picks series, collecting some of the most interesting stuff that we’ve [...]

Visiting the MIT Senseable City Lab / Singapore

We recently got an invitation to visit the MIT Senseable City Lab at the SMART [...]

Curious Atlases

Tomorrow we shall have to think up signs, sketch a landscape, fabricate a plan on [...]

Small Multiples: visual explorations in architecture and information design

Variations and local comparisons The term Small Multiples was introduced and popularized by Eduard Tufte, [...]

Data and the City: Urban Visualizations

According to Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, the amount of data collected between the [...]

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