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Economic Development
City center need a boost?
Redeveloping part of town? Building a new sports stadium? These
projects help readers visualize options and impact.
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| StarTribune.com
- Check Out the New Library
The Star Tribune created an interactive tour for the opening of the
new Minneapolis Library. Audio descriptions, 3-D panoramic images
and written stories allow the user to see inside the $125 million
building that took five years to construct. |
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Baristanet
- Montclair Teardown Map
Baristanet,
a citizen media site and online community for Essex County, N.J.,
used Google Maps to create this application that tracks houses being
torn down and new houses being built. Different colored icons are
used to designate houses that will be torn down, houses that will
be built on empty lots, and houses that are designated as "historic"
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| Chicago
Tribune - Trump Tower: The building of a Chicago skyscraper
The
Chicago Tribune developed this Flash presentation to show the progress
of the 92-story Trump Tower, being built on the location of the
old Chicago Sun-Times building. The Tribune offers a Web cam for
up-to-date aerial views of the construction as well as timelapse
videos, photo galleries and a description of how the tower is being
built. |
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WestportNow
- Westport Teardowns Interactive Map
WestportNow
created this clickable, movable map to chronicle the number of houses
being bought, torn down and replaced with "McMansions"
in this Connecticut town. Dragging the cursor over a green dot displays
the address, a photo of the lot, a status update and its purchase
price. Clicking a dot gives a larger photo and more details about
the lot.
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| washingtonpost.com
- Block by Block, the Changing Face of Southeast
To
show the increasing property value and the number of real estate
projects that have resulted from the proposed baseball stadium in
Southeast Washington, D.C., washingtonpost.com created this informative
graphic with a map overlaid on a satellite image of the area. Scrolling
over the buildings and lots on the map brings up a box that tells
what is in that location now, what is planned there in the future,
who owns the real estate and how much it is worth. |
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TheState.com
- New Life for Five Points The
State newspaper and TheState.com created this multimedia piece to
show improvements in the works in Columbia, S.C. Detailed descriptions
and graphics show changes being made to the streetscape and underground,
while animated graphics detail the construction process, such as
how to replace old, fragile pipes using a technique called "pipe
bursting." |
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(Everett, WA) Herald - Clickable Map
To
let residents have a virtual vote on how the town's waterfront should
be developed, The Herald created a first-of-its-kind clickable map
with icons for development choices that could be dragged to four
waterfront sites.The Everett game players could electronically submit
their final version of the map, and their votes were tallied for
news stories. The Herald took the interactive map down in 2004,
but you can still see a partial
archive of the site at the Internet
Archive.
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an archive of the waterfront site. |
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KQED
- Smart Growth Game
KQED,
San Francisco's public television station, designed a city planning
game that gives players five different decisions to make about how
to develop their city. At the end of the game, it explains the impact
of each choice and it scores players on how well-planned their cities
are.
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