Tyréns, one of Sweden’s leading urban planning consultancies, has acquired the consumer insight platform Bostadsköparen™ from Boverkstan, a subsidiary to Urbanity Labs.
Kategoriarkiv: Soul of the City
Finding the key drivers to a citys soul
Knight foundation and Gallup has conducted a very interesting study focusing on what are the key drivers that make citizens attached to their community and city?
Just watch the video! This is something that should be done for sweden!
Flash Mobs brings soul to cities
Flash Mobs has been around for a while and are now starting to change form. From being a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public space we start to see examples on how the excitement searching city dweller join forces with similar persons in longer and more coordinated city games. City games that uses the public spaces to interact and forming the soul of the city.
Gaming in the city has come to stay for a longer time, that’s for sure. See one of the larger flash mobs in New York here.
”A flash mob (or flashmob) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then disperse.” – Straight from Wikipedia.