ourbania has been a social media joint venture between the communication agency mediaman Gmbh and the real estate bank Eurohypo AG to create a free user generated reference guide focused just on the built environment. As of last week Eurohypo decided to not be part of ourbania anymore. Therefore, mediaman is looking for partners who would be interested in our community. ourbania is an excellent place to showcase new developments, particularly architecturally stimulating and innovative projects.

We have been doing some winter cleaning here at ourbania! We have cleaned up the clutter on our home page to deliver the most vital information in the shortest amount of time. We have created a “Dashboard”, of sorts, which shows the newest projects, comments, and members in the glimpse of an eye. In addition, the information that was originally on the home page has been moved to the Markets page. Got anymore cleaning suggestions? Please use the Feedback button at the top of the page to e-mail us!

After logging into ourbania.com, you will notice a new "Markets" tab between "Projects" and "People". After much contemplation, we at ourbania.com thought it would be useful and informative to create a "Markets" page where we could focus on hot markets. On this page, you can learn more about featured markets and go straight to a list of Projects associated with a certain city or area.

November's marketplace is focussed on Dubai. We encourage you to add your own Projects from Dubai.

Not only can you now view up to 100 Projects on a Google map at one time, you can now use a filtering application to show only the Projects that you choose on the map! Here’s how:

• Go to “Projects”
• Click the “Maps” tab
• In the right-hand column select the type of project you want to see on the map
• Click “Apply Filter”

Hi ourbania members! There is a lot of positive change going on within the ourbania community. Please check out the following update!

New! Online Community Manager

My name is Rachel, and I am the new Online Community Manager for ourbania. I am from the USA but live in Germany. I am excited about exploring all your new Projects and about adding some of my own. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or any additional suggestions or innovative ideas that you may have for the ourbania community.

Poll: The Results are In!

This Thursday, the ourbania team is going to upload the new profile sites to the community. Unfortunately, based on that, ourbania.com will be offline and unavailable for a short time from 6:00 am to 10:00 am Central European Time. We apologize for any inconvenience which might occur!

The new profile site will widen the possibilities of entering information about you, the citizen, so that others will be able to get to know you a lot better.

The ourbania team is currently busy updating the ranking possibilities of urban items. The team came up with some ideas for ranking features. The basis for the ranking could be the attribute building costs as well as the gross floor area and the building height. As a result, buildings and interesting spots could be compared to each other based on the real estate details.

Dear Citizen,

Besides the existing community terms of use on the bottem of the start page of ourbania, the community management team integrated the community rules to the site. Besides the more formal & jurudical background of the terms of use, the community rules describe behavioural issues and underline the social part of the community.

Please have a look on the Do's and Don't's so that everybody stays out of trouble.

You can find the rules here:

http://ourbania.com/community-rules

and the terms of use here:

http://ourbania.com/terms-use

Hi citizens, we're excited to see the community grow. More and more cities and urban items show up in ourbania. Thanks to all who contributed!

Last week, we experienced that quite a number of landscape projects, parks and the like have been added. So I'm wondering wether our fixed set of categories suits all these kind of urban items. What do you think? Does ourbania need more or different categories, for example to describe the building use?

If anything is missing here in ourbania, please tell us! Where here to make this place as easy to use and as informative for you as possible.

Technorati Profile

Our community blog is now registered with Technorati

Yesterday we launched a new feature: In a GoogleMap you can see the location of the urban item. If you want to add a location for an existing urban item, please go to “edit item” and type in the adress details.

We want to know what you think about the feature, please let us know!