assorted linkages and news

1. mapping del.icio.us: vox delicii color codes mindshares.
2. augmented maps: a system to augment printed maps with digital graphical information and user interface components. this was featured in New Scientist and via FutureFeeder.
3. more feedage from FF: a visual analysis of how cities can mold and shape climate forces. read
4. Cracks in the Pavement: Gifts in the Urban Landscape  is a multi-phased, interactive project that calls attention to the “in-between” spaces encountered throughout everyday life.

Finally, a few words to note the passing of an enormously influential artist, or should I say ... psychogeographer, Constant Nieuwenhuys. One could probably not overstate the weight of Constant's contribution to the imagining of cities. His art was a prophetic look at today's networked, postindustrial  megalopolis, but we still have a long way to go in order to achieve the individual freedom that he envisioned for it. It's too bad that English-language news sites haven't given Constant his due space at the time of his death (hello Guardian, BBC, NY Times...). [for more information, see Space and Culture: The Ludic City]