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Via Wired: “A Patient’s Bizarre Hallucination Points to How the Brain Identifies Places”

Dwayne Ali — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:05:02 +0000

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/pizzeria-hallucination-place-brain/

TTC Subway names to be replaced with Numbers

Dwayne Ali — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:05:04 +0000

https://instagram.com/p/fp4898reAS/

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https://instagram.com/p/fp4898reAS/

As part of the TTC’s wayfinding initiatives, they’ll be changing subway names (eg, the Yonge-University-Spadina line) to numbers based on the order in which they came into operation. YUS -> #1

But the TTC is preparing to tinker with tradition and begin numbering its subway lines in the same way as Paris or Madrid, cities that have much larger systems.
It’s part of a broader effort to make the Toronto system simpler to navigate for newcomers and occasional riders, and to standardize the higgledy-piggledy signage that has grown up across the TTC.

vie TheStar

New York uses signage to create ‘Text Stops’ for drivers

Dwayne Ali — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:24:11 +0000

“The zones will cost nothing to build as they actually already exist in the form of rest stops and parking areas. It’s really all about the signage.”

[Digital Trends - "Distracted driving: New York to introduce ‘Text Stops’ along state highways"]]

Rather than spending money on large infrastructure changes, New York has opted to use signage to re-frame existing rest stops. The stops always existed, and could always have been used for drivers to stop and text. But now, the signs have been re-framed to convey a certain amount of information very quickly.

Can cities specialize in ‘versatility’?

Dwayne Ali — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 05:52:42 +0000

The New York Times' 'Room for Debate' asks 'Should cities specialize?' Can a city specialize in frameworks that make them best able to adapt to new and changing industries? What role do strong information and transit networks play in that goal?

BUS

Dwayne Ali — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 05:43:37 +0000

On language, icons, pictographs, semiotics, and symbols.

When is a BUS a bus?

The Hypothesis: BUS becomes a symbol in itself.

Desire paths and paths of least resistance

Dwayne Ali — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:56:46 +0000

Excerpt option???

Start message here below more tag. Will make sure this doesn’t go on front page. Oh, check location. Frock.

[geolocation]

Branch off New Theme for testing

Dwayne Ali — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:06:26 +0000

make this its own theme.
so you won’t have conflicts

TTC Stop Signs

Dwayne Ali — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:57:22 +0000

When your stop signs look like ads, you have a problem.
When you need to put a sign for an additional sign, you have a problem.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/23/media_enjoys_preview_ride_aboard_new_ttc_streetcars.html

The only question that remains: Where do the ads go?

Information Curbs

Dwayne Ali — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:17:50 +0000

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/07/23/mayor_rob_ford_paints_curbs_red_for_toronto_traffic_project.html

Paint curbs red.
Already being used in LA.
Additional information to augment signage – supercedes sign information.

How will it stand up to snow?

C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker

Dwayne Ali — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:52:52 +0000

Bat-Man
E-Mail
On-line
Base Ball
To-morrow
Multi-Media

The dropping of the hyphen is a special coming of age for words in the english language.
When the marriage has been consummated. When the originators become inseparable.
When the sum of their parts become something greater than they ever were separately.

It’s a signifier of wide-spread acceptance. Acceptance that a combination of previously un-matched concepts not had a reason to be together.

It seems that a significant semantic hurdle for the acceptance of a new combination term is when the hyphen or space is dropped, and it becomes its own word.

http://i.imgur.com/KnR8Xhu.jpg

Kevin Lynch, who popularized the term as it applied to cities would be happy to know it’s commonly printed as “wayfinding” now. Though, it’s still absent from MS Word and the iPhone’s default dictionaries.

True to his hipster self, “Spider-Man” is still his preferred nomenclature.