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1. The Case for Open Source Urbanism

2. Mission

3. Credo

4. Philosophy

5. Five Pillars

6. Tools Desktop

Ideate

Art in Odd Places (@ArtinOddPlaces)
A festival of visual and performance art in public space.

Art On Air (@ArtonAir)
Art International Radio is an Internet radio station, free cultural archive, and art center.

Institute for Urban Design (@IFUD)
Conversations on issues related to urban planning, development, and design.

No Longer Empty (@NoLongerEmpty)
Revitalizing space. Unlocking creativity.

Projects for Public Spaces (@PPS_Placemaking)
Placemaking for communities.

Research

Skillshare (@skillshare)
A community marketplace to learn anything from anyone.

Open Culture (@openculture)
The best free cultural & educational media on the web.

Uncollege (@uncollege)
Live an UnCollege life by hacking your education.

Studio H (@projecthdesign)
Public high school design/build curriculum.

Live Mocha (@Livemocha)
Learn from a native speaker with crowdsourced language learning.

Engage

Hootsuite (@hootsuite)
Social media dashboard for managing tweets, facebook, foursquare etc.

Twitter (@twitter)
Crowd conversations via real time micro blogging.

Facebook (@facebook)
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

Meetup (@meetup)
Helps groups of people with shared interests plan meetings and form offline clubs in local communities around the world.

Reddit (@reddit)
Community curated conversations and news link sharing.

Hackerspace (@HackerspacesBot)
Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects.

Makerbot (@makerbot)
Makerbot is an affordable open source robot that helps people make robots that make things.

Fritzing (@FritzingOrg)
Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics.

Wikispaces (@wikispaces)
Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together.

Xmind (@Xmind)
Open Source mind mapping and brainstorming software.

Kickstarter (@kickstarter)
A crowd-funding platform for artists and innovators that works on a threshold pledge system.

Indiegogo (@Indiegogo)
The world’s leading international crowd funding platform.

Profounder (@teamprofounder)
ProFounder offers free tools to fund and grow your business with the help of your community.

Kiva (@kiva)
Micro loans for new businesses in developing countries.

Grow VC (@GrowVC)
Grow VC enables great ideas and great teams to get visibility with the right investing audience, funding and support earlier.

Cohuman (@cohuman)
Delegate, track and prioritize tasks with all your teams for free.

Taskforce (@taskforce)
Convert emails into tasks, so you can save time and stay organized.

Teamlab (@teamlabdotcom)
TeamLab is a multifunctional web office for business collaboration, document and project management.

Build

NextSpace(@nextspace)
Physical and virtual infrastructure for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals coworking.

TopCoder(@topcoder)
Online computer programming competitions in the Java, C++, and C# languages.

ODesk (@odesk)
oDesk is a global marketplace that helps employers hire, manage, and pay remote freelancers or teams.

VWorker (@vworker)
An international marketplace connecting employers/entrepreneurs and virtual workers in numerous industries.

Y Combinator (@ycombinator)
Y Combinator does seed funding for startups.

Refine

Mindjet (@mindjet)
Mindjet helps you reach your full productivity potential with information mapping.

CrowdSpring (@crowdspring)
A marketplace for crowdsourced creative services.

Napkin Lab (@napkinlabs)
Napkin Labs is the easiest way to discover insights from your fans, followers, and customers.

Genius Rocket (@geniusrocket)
A curated production process and a fully-vetted community of creative professional freelancers.

Blur Group (@blurgroup)
Blur Group is the world’s largest Creative Services Exchange.

Market

Pay With a Tweet (@innothunder)
Social payment system.

Etsy (@Etsy)
Etsy is a e-Commerce website that focuses on handmade and vintage items, as well as art and craft supplies.

BigCartel (@bigcartel)
Big Cartel is a simple shopping cart for clothing and tee designers, bands, record labels, jewelry makers, crafters, and other artists

Plus Pool (@pluspoolny)
A floating pool in the river for everyone.

Resources

Project Info

Detroit Redux Design Charette

1. Transportation

2. Pedestrianism

3. Architecture

My Detroit Redux Response

1. Transportation

2. Pedestrianism

3. Architecture

Case Studies

Case 1: KIPP Academy x Rules for a Democratic Environment.

Application 1: Detroit Needs a Credo.

Case 2: 4Chan & Reddit x Cloud Communication.

Application 2: *Twitter as a Tool for Urban Communication.*

Case 3. New (and old) Pedestrianism.

Application 3. *Participatory Pedestrian Experiences.*