Hey Brooklyn, you can take a Scenic Route walk now! You can too, Austin. Yep, even you Palo Alto! Any U.S. city that has recommendations on nextstop.com is open for mobile on-demand walking tours from Scenic Route! All thanks to nextstop.com’s API and Gabe’s mashup mastery [1].
We’re really excited about this update because nextstop.com is [...]
February 16, 2010 – 8:13 am
While reading a recent article about San Francisco’s (promising but obtuse) upcoming legislation to use vacant lots for art and pop up gardens, I discovered John King. He’s The SF Chronicle’s “Urban Design Writer,” and his articles demonstrate some darned good taste in urbanism and culture.
Particularly relevant to Scenic Routers is Mr. King’s Cityscape, which [...]
February 15, 2010 – 3:47 pm
Gabe and I recently joined SPUR – San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. It only costs $55 to be a “Young Urbanist,” and it’s worth every penny. They have a really nice, informative print publication which also goes out via email. But the best part is the free or reduced cost access to events [...]
January 27, 2010 – 5:16 pm
“In the seventies, Japanese conceptual artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei and his buddies discovered “hyperart,” unintentional art created by the city itself. Everywhere they saw urban objects and structures that had had a use in the past, but were now useless … yet someone was still maintaining them, not removing them. Akasegawa named these objects [...]
January 22, 2010 – 9:19 am
I have a challenge for you! Pee in style! Help the Scenic Route community stop peeing in their pants and instead find quality restrooms across the city. If you’re game, keep reading.
Qualifying restrooms should meet these criteria:
- They are publicly-accessible
- They are free
- They are safe and reasonably clean/well-stocked
January 21, 2010 – 5:09 pm
I’m putting together a panel on location-based games for South by Southwest and you should all totally come see us! It’s going to be *amazing.* We’re going to talk (and bicker!) about hot trends in locative gaming: platforms, social gaming, virtual items, gps, etc. I’m especially eager to discuss business models and alternate scales/modes [...]
January 20, 2010 – 9:37 am
I just discovered Roadify, a cool new service in Brooklyn that was recently interviewed/featured on Brooklyn Based (I like to keep in touch with my old stomping grounds). Roadify describes itself as the first comprehensive “social transportation” company, combining social networking with a wealth of published transit information. Neat! They seem “social” in a “socially-minded [...]
January 19, 2010 – 11:17 am
Hi All! Our friends at the New Deal Art Registry have some great spots on Scenic Route. They’ve also been giving us super useful feedback as we iterate. Whenever one person asks a question, there’s a good chance others are silently wondering the same darned thing. And so, I’m going to answer the “Q”’s for [...]
January 18, 2010 – 8:18 pm
About a month ago, Gabe and I were in Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo (no joke). We decided to take a break from the hullabaloo of the casinos and cowboys – to, uh, take the scenic route! While we were driving out to a ghost town, we spotted this amazing sign:
We took a [...]
