If there is a genealogy of urban visualization projects, there is certainly a category invested in reading the city as a text. CityMurmur?was developed by?Writing Academic English at the VISUALIZAR'08 workshop held at Medialab-Prado last fall. The project functions as a geo-aggregator and produces maps and semantic representations of Madrid based off RSS feeds. Mixing both mass media and blog commentary, the project provides a flexible interface for reading the city "through the eyes of the media". Some additional technical notes are available at a related VisualComplexity post?but the best way to get a sense of the project is to take it for a spin yourself.
