Category Archives: Urban Tech
MacroMarkets Home Price Indexes
MacroMarkets offers some of the most sophisticated housing market indexes in the world. The numbers are based on rather complex formulations.
From their site:
“In May 2006, in partnership with MacroMarkets, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) successfully launched Housing Futures and Options for U.S. residential real estate. This landmark development created the first exchange-traded financial products for directly investing in and hedging U.S. housing.”
Filed under Urban Tech
Urban Tech: Flash Earth
Flash Earth offers filters that allow the user to employ different mapping technologies without going back and forth between websites. Flash Earth is not good for diagramming and drawing on maps as none of the features are available. Correct me … Continue reading
Filed under Urban Tech
Map/Satellite Imagery No Substitute For Being On the Ground
In analyzing the urban transformation of Miami, using tools such as Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and Google Maps/StreetView is extremely useful. However, when making final determinations, there is no substitute for surveying the reality on the ground–venturing out into the city, street by street. To illustrate this further, let’s take a look at these images: Continue reading
Filed under Maps and Illustrations, Urban Tech
Spine 3D: Revolutionizing New Construction Sales
Spine 3D Animation Studios represents a window to the future. Surely you’ve seen their animations. They bring the future to life with life-like animations of projects. Spine 3D represents a truly novel segment of the real estate industry. Their animations … Continue reading
Filed under Architects, Urban Tech
