Category Archives: Sutton

Sutton pedestrian crossings proposed for removal by TfL

Posted on 17 August 2010 by Adrian Short

Transport for London are proposing to review and possibly remove 145 traffic lights and pedestrian crossings across London. Here’s a map I’ve made of the five crossings in the London Borough of Sutton that are under review. Download the map … Continue reading →

Posted in Planning, Politics, Sutton, Urban design, Urbanism | 2 Comments

What’s the point of a tweeting mobile library?

Posted on 17 December 2009 by Adrian Short

Last week I launched @SutMobLib, a Twitter account that tweets the location of Sutton’s mobile library in real time. No, I’m not sitting here all day sending messages. A program does that automatically. Every time the library gets to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Design theory, Software design, Sutton, Urban design | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Guerrilla noticeboarding with Barcode Posters

Posted on 28 September 2009 by Adrian Short

Here’s what we got up to with an underused council noticeboard, some RSS feeds, a barcode-reading iPhone and a little bit of hackery.

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Worst practice: 10 ways that Sutton Council’s website (still) drives me nuts

Posted on 7 August 2009 by Adrian Short

UPDATE 1 March 2010: Let’s see how the site’s doing seven months after I originally published this article. Someone famous once said that the true definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the results … Continue reading →

Posted in Sutton, Usability, Web design | Tagged , | 11 Comments

Lib Dems’ leaflets: Legal, indecent, dishonest, untruthful

Posted on 4 June 2009 by Adrian Short

Today the Sutton Guardian has run a story in which I and Bob Steel from the Sutton Green Party accuse MPs Paul Burstow, Tom Brake and the Sutton Lib Dems of distributing deceitful and misleading leaflets about today’s European Parliament … Continue reading →

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Is Sutton Council too white?

Posted on 13 May 2009 by Adrian Short

The Sutton Minority Ethnic Forum is running a project called the Shadow Councillor Scheme, which lets people who may be interested in becoming councillors find out more by closely following a councillor for a month. While everyone is welcome to … Continue reading →

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Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS

Posted on 15 March 2009 by Adrian Short

(Click on the image to download the PDF, 19KB, opens in new window/tab.) Like this? Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/adrianshort I’m a self-confessed and unashamed news junkie and this is how I’m starting to mash up news in my local … Continue reading →

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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 3: Starting a chess club

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Adrian Short

Brian loves chess but finds it hard to get a decent match with an opponent at his level. He’d love to start a local chess club but doesn’t want to take the risk of setting something up and having too … Continue reading →

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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 2: Street faults

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Adrian Short

Early one Sunday morning, Mark walks to the newsagent for his paper. He almost literally trips over a metal street bollard that has been uprooted from somewhere and dumped a couple of doors down from his house. He scans the … Continue reading →

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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 1: The library

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Adrian Short

Susan is a bookworm and regular library user. She filters the RSS feed of new acquisitions at her local library for the names of authors which she likes and reads it on her phone. One morning a new book by one of her … Continue reading →

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