New City in Central Africa: La Cité du Fleuve
Conceived to appear from the marshes at an islet of the Congo River, North of the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, La Cité du Fleuve is an ambitious new city project: Its not…
Read →Cityfix: MTV and OneDotZero
Cityfix was commissioned by MTV/OneDotZero as a fictional brand created to campaign for industrial architecture in a…
SketchUp to Google Earth Timelapse
Reader will know that a couple of main themes here on digital urban are timelapse imagery and 3d modelling, as such the…
Competition Winners
We were slightly overwhealmed with entires to the competion to win a copy of Virtual Geographic Environments. The…
Microsoft Seadragon: Point to an Image and Process - 3D Tube Map
Microsoft have revamped their http://www.seadragon.com/ service and its quite impressive in terms of sharing high…
A London Day: Timelapse
London Day by UrbanTick uses timelapse techniques to follow the activities of a day in the UK capital. Interestingly…
Call for Papers: 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling in Hong Kong
The 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling will be held in Hong Kong 26-28th May 2010. As co-chair of…
Sketchlife: SketchUp to Second Life
We have never quite understood why Second Life is such a closed shop when it comes down to importing models - compared…
Nonbeing: A Hybernating City
Nonbeing is a short film directed /edited/shot by Michel Mazza a professional composer and producer with music by MULCH…
EyePet PS3 & AR Toolkit for Flash
While not 'urban' this is caught our eye as a neat augmented reality application running on the PS3 via the PlayStation…
Building Rome in a Day: A 3D City via Flickr
With the recent rise in popularity of Internet photo sharing sites like Flickr and Google Images, community photo…
Sketch Worlds: 3D Max and SketchUp Virtual World for Architectural Visualization
SketchWorlds, based on RealXtend, is unique - a virtual world with architectural and property based visualisation at…
Win a Copy of Virtual Geographic Environments
We have just received our copies of Virtual Geographic Environments, the book has contributions by Jack Dangermond,…