› Tue, 15 May 2012
To celebrate its 6th global event this September, Crowdcentric, the company behind the event, unveiled the Instagram Your City contest, which began on May 1st and runs until June 29th at 11:59pm ET. The contest calls upon citizens of Social Media Week’s 14 hubs – London, Glasgow, Torino, Barcelona, Berlin, Doha, Jeddah, Hong Kong, Seoul, São Paulo, Bogotá, Chicago, Los Angeles and Vancouver — to photograph their cities, and show off each town’s natural and filtered charm. (via Social Media Week Launches its Photo Contest: Instagram Your City)
Hong Kong by @sambhojwani
› Mon, 14 May 2012
CITY BREATHS: The Science of Cities: Today’s Urbanists are the Wright Brothers
Geoffrey West, educating us about how cities work.According to Geoffrey West, distinguished professor at Santa Fe Institute, we need to develop a “science of cities”. West compares contemporary urbanists to the Wright brothers, who are credited with inventing and building the world’s…
