I’m dreaming of something akin to a Civic Mythbusters website. Everyone’s got an urban legend or generalization that’s been passed around so often, it might as well be fact for the way people talk about it. But when the data to actually really truly verify the validity of a claim is made available and the analysis possible, well, why not do it?
About
countably infinite is the online writing space of Karen Fung, social media ponderer and student of urban & transportation planning at UBC.
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Recent writing
- #PlannersTweet: Learning how planning and planners use(s) Twitter
- A little more about #myresearch
- Anonymity and contempt in public engagement: correlation, not causation?
- Transit Pet Peeves: One person’s contest, another person’s social inclusion setback
- Complexifiers and Simplifiers: some necessary nuance
Reactions on this site…
- Adam Fitch on Awkward as Planned: short-term pain for long-term Olympic Legacy?
- A little more about #myresearch on Twitter in Transit, take 1, at BarCamp Vancouver 2009
- Jenny Ann Fraser on Transit Pet Peeves: One person’s contest, another person’s social inclusion setback
- AG on Will the smarter city be built by love?
- Colleen Hardwick on Does pseudonymity matter for engagement in planning?
