Dublin Frequent Transport Map complete and up for sale!
Just a quick post for this glorious Saturday on which Leinster are going to kick arse! My Frequent Transport Map is now up for sale over on my portfolio website – cbroderick.me/dublin_transport_map The idea is you pay 5 euro and you get a digital copy of the map which you can print and do what...
So who would like to live in Ikea-land?
Two stories I was just dying to repost today which I discovered on planetizen! The first one being that IKEA are moving into the world of Urban Design with plans to create a new neighborhood in East London, without an IKEA store in sight! And two a genius tool has been developed by the plucky germans to to let...
Good News! I’m not dead. I shall be speaking out at Dublinked
Bit of a dramatic title that but, I have been missing for the last while getting settled into my new job and the whirlwind of change that has kicked off. Anyway enough about me! It’s been an exciting few weeks as regards planning in Ireland goes, with significant developments in terms of the Children’s Hospital being refused...
IPI President on the RTE News at 1
Brendan Alan the IPI President in on the News at One show on RTE RAdio 1 - http://www.rte.ie/news/news1pm/ In case you missed Brendan Today the sound byte is available here – Irish Planning Institute on RADIO 1
Movie Thursday: StrongTowns at TedX
This is a must watch for any spatial planner out there. We certainly really do need to take a long hard look at out urban environment and decide what are our priorities. So please take the few minutes to listen to what Chuck Marohn has to say, it’s well worth your time! This tweet below...
Happy New Year! 2011 The year of the Chinese, our massive population, continuing trends and more
As 2011 draws to a close I thought we would look back on this bumper year for the blog and pick out the top 10 most viewed posts of 2011 as per the analytics. But first I would like to thank everyone who has commented or helped me out during the year, it is much...
Belated Happy Christmas and have a great St. Stephen’s Day
Spare a thought, we can get the bus to the shop . Take it easy and C’mon Leinster!
[OPEN DATA] NTA NaPTAN Mapped
A quick post today showing just the sort of data that has been made available through the DubLinked project. I attended the recent DubLinked workshop in IBM themed around planning data. It was great fun had some serious chats with @josephcorr and @Fingal_Data_Hub on the upcoming #Apps4Fingal competition, and no I have not come up with a proper...
![[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5](http://dt106ers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/RapidTransportMap10122011-290x290.png "[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5")
[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5
First I would like to say thanks a million to all those who provided feedback on my first version of the Dublin transport map, you all know who you are, thank you! Before I show you the revised map I would like to explain my design process a bit better so as to clear up some...
News Roundup – Technology, Technology and DATA
We start this week wit the announcement of a new website ram packed with old Central Statistics Office data from the last census but shows a lot of promise! Decision Map DecisionMap.ie - Is new online resource which maps census data on a number of levels including the electoral distrcts and provides one of those cool percentage box type things...
Westmeath CoCo gives the go ahead for Chinese Trade Centre
You may remember this time last year I wrote a post on the future plans that were afoot for a site close to the town of Athlone – Must Read: Athlone to be developed by the Chinese. Well today I was listening to RTE’s Drivetime while making the dinner, they had a guy on from Athlone...
So there’s 7+ Billion People in the World!
According to the UN today, we symbolically reached the 7 Billion person mark. It just boggle the mind, that in just 11 short years since 2000 that another billion people have been added to the worlds population. So why not tell your story on 7 Billion Actions? In 1900 some 10% of people lived in cities, by...
