Can tweets shape the city? Seminar 4 Twitter List

Twitter is a great way to see the conversations taking place between city planners, urbanists, and historians! View the list: NYC Urbanism

Curated specifically for Seminar 4, NYC Urbanism shows tweets from over 100 accounts related to New York City, urban planning, policy, and history.

The list includes official city accounts like @NYCPlanning and @NYC_DOT, authors from the course reading list including Brian Tochterman (@btochterman) and Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida), as well as accounts chosen to help with the research project such as digitized archival collections (NYPL Archives) in addition to tweets from accounts related to social science methods, GIS, and mapping like @SocialExplorer, and @pewmethods.

Social Explorer Workshop

Below is an embedded PDF of the PowerPoint shown in class on Thursday, March 9 during the Social Explorer workshop. This PowerPoint contains:

  • A link to an excellent video tutorial about Social Explorer;
  • A link to my demo project about using Social Explorer to understand the changes in the neighborhood where Paris Is Burning was filmed;
  • Instructions about accessing Social Explorer from the BC Library website.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me to learn more about using Social Explorer as a means to understanding the changes in your research group’s neighborhood!

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