OP here. I tried out 3dstreet. It is a great idea. Simplified web based 3D editors of all kind, is the future for making people involved in city planning and architecture.
I am not alone. Our website is made by the man who created the CSS standard while at CERN, Håkon Wium Lie. https://arkitekturopproret.no
Most of the social media activities is done by a couple of fellows who is really into digital marketing. We are a team of 5 people working mostly for free now.
I have no formal training in architecture or urban design. I am just a nerd who used to love playing SimCity and read Astérix comic books. Paul Graham have always focused on finding real problems and making people happy. Car dependent housing projects and bad architecture is making peoples lives miserable. It needs to be fixed.
Thank's a lot! So far the project haven't paid off much. But that is not the most important goal. It is about making something really useful for people. In this case nice cities and neighbourhoods.
For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the disastrous effect car based transportation has on the environment.
I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I registered the Norwegian branch of the Architectural Uproar as a not for profit organization. With the support from paying members, I have been able to go on tour to most of the major cities in Norway. We organize large meetings were we discuss architecture and city planning with politicians, architects and property developers on stage.
I am strongly inspired by Create Streets in UK and Strong Towns in the US. I want to improve people’s quality of life, help saving the planet and make Norway beautiful again while doing it.
Isn't this communism or socialism? I thought US citizens were allergic to socialism? That's the only reasonable explanation to why USA still has an archaic, super expensive private healthcare?
"To be clear, Not a Wheelchair isn’t a nonprofit — it’s currently licensed as a benefit company, a newer designation of a for-profit company that provides a public service."
Is React a cult or a framework? Maybe both? We should all take a break from time to time and ask ourselves why we use frameworks like React. React has been my go to framework for 10 years now. It is about time to consider light weight alternatives like Svelte, Inferno or Preact.
I recently started a company called Good Places, actually Gode Steder in Norwegian, where we simply design good places. Our goal is to design city districts with better quality of live and status than urban sprawl. You can't force people to live in cities, but you can make urban districts that are for better suited for families than urban sprawl with single family homes. The aesthetic qualities is just as important as the quality of the rest of the city planning. If that means making buildings inspired by 150 years old buildings, then so be it.
The whole Architectural Uprising movement sort of started in 1984 when the young Prince Charles gave a speech at the Royal Institute of British Architects 150th anniversary gala evening. During his speech, the prince said that a proposed new modernist extension to the National Gallery was ugly. Or to be more precise, he called it a carbuncle in the face of a dear old friend.
Databases accessed directly from javascript in the browser, may change yet again how multi user webapps is being written. Looking forward to playing with InstantDb.
Living in a place like Kowloon Walled City must be much better than living out of a car. Areas with no legal restrictions on what can and will be built, could help solve the extremely damaging housing crisis in western countries.
Hopefully this will make it easier for a lot of teenagers, students and other to play around with machine learning. Instead of installing just another AI powered app on your phone, download the source and data for an AI powered solution to you r Raspberry and tinker with it.
The students used to get brainwashed about the advantages of object oriented programming at the University of Oslo. Two of the professors had coined the term object oriented programming, and created a programming language called simula. Simula was the first programming language with reserved words like "class". It took me many years with functional programming in react, to abolish the thought that oop was the only way to write clean and robust code.
The world needs more walkable cities. What prevents more walkable cities form being built, is zoning laws, parking regulations, and industrialized housing production. Walkable cities is good for the economy, environment and people... in the long run. Too bad so few sees the long term business opportunity in building cities like this.
If anyone was in doubt; jQuery is not dead. For anyone who wants to write minimalistic and efficient vanilla javascript, jQuery is still being maintained and used by many.
Most of the consumption in the western world, is done to increase status in some form or another. Conspicuous consumption of clothing, hand bags, housing, cars and travel, is literally destroying our planet. Increasing the number of dimensions people can use to seek social status, is of vital importance to reduce damaging conspicuous consumption. Research in the field of social status and happiness, is just as important in order to reduce co2 emissions, as research in green tech.
Just as serious is the problem of poor quality concrete used in many buildings in china. Due to corruption, many new buildings have been built of concrete made with normal beach sand. Sand with salt causes iron to corrode and the concrete becomes brittle. It is commonly known as tofu dreg. Lots of buildings have already collapsed. If the bubble burst, and the property market collapses, it will hopefully make houses more robust in the future.
These performance rules applies for all backend development. Use compression and caching, index foreign keys in your database and tune your sql queries.