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		<title>Blog post with slider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenkennedy</dc:creator>
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		<title>SimpleKey theme introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/simplekey-theme-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SimpleKey is a multi-purpose one page WordPress Theme. It's suit for show your portfolios or introduct your company services, and if you are a iPhone or Andriod APP developer, you can also use it for your APP product introduction, if you don't have those business needs, it's also can be a simple blog theme for your daily writing. There are 33 shortcodes ready for your easily customize, you will be able to show your portfolios, recent tweets, team introduction,pricetable or a mobile compatibility slider and so on. Detailed document and example data xml will help you to get started easily, if you are looking for this kind of theme just in time, please pay more attention to this theme and also consider purchase it, thanks in advance!</p>
<h3>​Some features</h3>
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<li>One page with smooth scrolling effect.</li>
<li>Responsive design.</li>
<li>HTML5 Ready.</li>
<li>Advanced theme options to custom navigation background, LOGO, Favicon and so on.</li>
<li>Custom background color on every page area on homepage.</li>
<li>33 easy using shortcodes for columns, team, portfolios, pricetable, call blog post, styled box, tabs, toggle and many more...</li>
<li>Integrated Ajax contact form.</li>
<li>Mobile compatibility slider.</li>
<li>Example data xml and PSD included.</li>
<li>Detailed documentation.</li>
<li>And more....</li>
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		<title>Embed Video example</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenkennedy</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/61513164">EVERYDAY</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/gustavjohansson">Gustav Johansson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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		<link>http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/post-format-example/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenkennedy</dc:creator>
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		<title>Which kind of WordPress themes do you really need?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/which-kind-of-wordpress-themes-do-you-really-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenkennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, guys! We are working on a magnificent one page portfolio theme now, in the meantime, we are preparing the other new theme for you, so we wanna know some requirements that is most-wantd in advance. There are some options below, please leave a comment and tell me that which is your most in need. Thanks [...]]]></description>
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<p>We are working on a magnificent one page portfolio theme now, in the meantime, we are preparing the other new theme for you, so we wanna know some requirements that is most-wantd in advance.</p>
<p>There are some options below, please leave a comment and tell me that which is your most in need. Thanks for your join.</p>
<ol>
<li>An easy use portfolio theme for your company or business website.</li>
<li>An app theme for your work, for example, project control or knowledge management and so on.</li>
<li>Tumblog style theme for personal blog.</li>
<li>You are a photographer, so a photography theme is you needed.</li>
<li>Or you are a videographer and want to creat a video website.</li>
<li>A ecommerce theme can help you to creat online shop.</li>
<li>Special Needs,for example, a music theme can help you to organize ablums and play music online, or you need a useful theme for your restaurant or store.</li>
<li>Others.</li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
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		<title>Dhaka Street Walkability</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/dhaka-street-walkability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/dhaka-street-walkability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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<h4>Field Walkability Survey Parameters</h4>
<p>[accordion][acc title="Walking Path Modal Conflicts"]The extent of conflict between pedestrians and other modes, such as bicycles, motorcycles, and cars on the road.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Availability of Walking Paths"]  The need for, availability, and condition of walking paths.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Walking Path Modal Conflicts"]The availability and distances of crossings to describe whether pedestrians tend to jaywalk when there are no crossings or when crossings are too far in between.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Grade Crossing Safety"]The exposure of pedestrians to other modes while crossing, the time spent waiting and crossing the street, and the sufficiency of time given to pedestrians to cross signalized intersections.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Motorist Behavior"]The behavior of motorists toward pedestrians, which may well indicate the kind of pedestrian environment there is in that area.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Amenities"]The availability of pedestrian amenities such as benches, street lights, public toilets, and trees. These amenities greatly enhance attractiveness and convenience.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Disability Infrastructure"]The availability, positioning, and maintenance of infrastructure for the disabled.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Obstructions"]The presence of permanent and temporary obstructions on the pedestrian pathways. These ultimately affect the effective width of the pedestrian pathway and may cause inconvenience to the pedestrians.[/acc]</p>
<p>[acc title="Security from Crime"]The general feeling of security against crime in the street.[/acc][/accordion]</p>
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		<title>A Minute in Dhaka</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/minute-in-dhaka/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/minute-in-dhaka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>“A Minute in Dhaka” was an attempt by the Urban Launchpad to link the visual story of a place to quantified metrics. One minute of footage was taken at eighteen intersections selected throughout Dhaka to document traffic conditions. The visual narrative of the videos was paired with counts for five transit modes: walking, rickshaws, CNGs, cars, and buses. The data presented reflect an average number of pedestrians or vehicles per minute over a 20-minute period at each site. By linking quantitative metrics with the visual story told through each video, each set of data became part of an anecdote for its associated site.</h4>
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<h3>Visual Anecdote of Multimodal Transit</h3>
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<h5>Dhaka, Bangladesh</h5>
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<p>[twocol_one_first] <div class="dropcap">As</div> an initial test of visualization’s role in Dhaka, the Urban Launchpad coordinated an exploratory workshop with university students using a project entitled “A Minute in Dhaka.” The author, as an observer, witnessed both the potential and shortcomings of visualization as a strategy for conveying information about urban conditions and planning issues. The project used a mechanism of pairing video footage of traffic and street conditions with average traffic counts by mode in different parts of the city. This pairing is an example of linking metrics and visual stories, and presents an opportunity to assess the value of visual anecdotes.</p>
<p>Stepping onto a main street in Dhaka, one is immediately bombarded by the din of daily life. A sea of rickshaws, buses, cars, bicycles, motorcycles, and CNGs extends in every direction as the city’s 18 million residents and their goods move about. As in many developing cities throughout South and Southeast Asia, this chaos is an accepted characteristic of the urban condition. The street, the stage of this orchestra, is also occupied by an enormous number of pedestrians. En route to their daily activities, people make purchases at stalls informally occupying the majority of what would normally be considered a sidewalk. Street crossing happens at any given point without regard to the speed and flow of traffic.</p>
<p>Quantifying a minute in Dhaka would at first seem like an unimaginable task: masses flow from every direction, at varying speeds, disregarding feeble attempts by the devices of an inefficient traffic management system to impose order. In some cases, this ‘system’ is embodied by an elderly man with a stick prodding rickshaws into one narrow lane or another. While this would seem ineffective to commuters of developed countries constrained by double yellow lines, sidewalks, and red lights, such informal methods can have a surprising impact. At a particularly hectic intersection along Nazimuddin Road in Kotwali, a tangled, ancient neighborhood of Dhaka, one gentleman successfully coordinated the flow of more than 450 rickshaws in 20 minutes through a corridor that hardly accommodates one motorized vehicle. His compensation: the occasional cigarette offered by a passerby. [/twocol_one_first][twocol_one_last] In addition to the magnitude of traffic that occurs on the streets of Dhaka at any given moment, the multi-modal nature of urban transit makes understanding mobility exponentially more complex. While in the U.S., street capacity and utilization can be measured in numbers of cars, pedestrians, and the occasional cyclist, a traffic engineer attempting to understand Dhaka’s streets would have to account for pedestrians, rickshaws, CNGs, cars, taxis, bicycles, motorcycles, buses, and microbuses. Generating snapshots of the quantity of each of these modes is a daunting task.</p>
<p>“A Minute in Dhaka” was an attempt by the Urban Launchpad to link the visual story of a place to quantified metrics. One minute of footage was taken at eighteen intersections selected throughout Dhaka to document traffic conditions. The visual narrative of the videos was paired with counts for five transit modes: walking, rickshaws, CNGs, cars, and buses. The data presented reflect an average number of pedestrians or vehicles per minute over a 20-minute period at each site. By linking quantitative metrics with the visual story told through each video, each set of data became part of an anecdote for its<br />
associated site.</p>
<p>The purpose of making this connection was to embed insights directly into a visual artifact and generate discussion about the causes behind certain features of the counts. For example, using only the counts data set, the average car per minute count in Islampur is zero. When paired with the minute video loop, however, it quickly becomes evident that both the physical capacity of the road and the scope of goods being moved through this part of the city by couriers and rickshaws simply could not accommodate personal cars. Viewed on their own, the counts for Mirpur 1 might mislead one to think that the comparatively high pedestrian count indicates the presence of a decent infrastructure to support this mode. However, the video loop quickly reveals that pedestrians at the site simply navigate as a crowd between traffic moving in every direction. By linking video stories and metrics, this visualization puts simple data into context and increases knowledge about the conditions of each site. [/twocol_one_last]</p>
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