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LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning | Epicenter from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/mark-gorton-ceo.html

Portland, Oregon has already used his open-source software to plan its bus routes. San Francisco, whose MUNI bus system is a frequent target of criticism, could be next to get the treatment. Gorton says he's in talks with the city to supply transit routing software for MUNI that will do a much better job of keeping track of where people are going and figuring out how best to get them there. San Francisco "overpaid greatly" for a badly-supported proprietary closed-source system that barely works, according to Gorton, putting the city under the thumb of a private company that provides sub-par support.
Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools. Gorton, whose LimeWire file sharing software for the open-source gnutella network was at the forefront of the P2P revolution nearly a decade ago, is taking profits earned as a software mogul and spinning them into projects to make urban transportation safer, faster and more sustainable.
"Gorton, whose LimeWire file sharing software for the open-source gnutella network was at the forefront of the P2P revolution nearly a decade ago, is taking profits earned as a software mogul and spinning them into projects to make urban transportation safer, faster and more sustainable."
While public, that data was locked by private software used by public organizations and suffered from an overall lack of standards. Thus was born GeoServer, an open-source, Java-based software server that lets anyone view and edit geo-spatial data. Road information can now be painstakingly imported once from proprietary systems or entered from scratch, double-checked by other users, and rolled out to anyone who needs the data
David Byrne’s Perfect City - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574403293064136098.html
Osaka's robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician's fantasy metropolis
«Osaka's robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician's fantasy metropolis»
Top 10 comic book cities | The Critics | Architects Journal
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/the-critics/top-10-comic-book-cities/5204772.article
The Architects' Journal lists its top ten comic book cities.
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From Gotham City to Mega City One, the Architects’ Journal presents a selection of the greatest illustrated urban spaces
Germany Imagines Suburbs Without Cars - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html
An article about Vauban, Germany from the NY Times
New York Times article discusses car-free suburb in Vauban, Germany, and other car-reduced developments in other country.
Car-free town in Germany
Archigram Archival Project
http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/
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arquitectura teórica