Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you creative cultural exchange in Berlin, a first-person photo series and an app to upload, geo-tag and share awesome street art.
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Expansive landscapes and mountainous coastlines play with our perspective in the following series by photographer and graphic designer Luke Evans. Though you feel like you are looking at a collection of images that capture a timeless quality of nature, ‘Forge’ is actually a set of miniature models created on Evans’ kitchen table. Through the use of common household materials such as shaving foam, glycerine, flour and bricks a visual world is created and explored. Continue reading
EpicentreSF hosted an interactive “activation project” on 6th Street in
San Francisco. The event included a Neighborland board to share your
ideas, a collaborative mural facilitated by ArtIsMobilUs to re-imagine
6th Street, and fun urban seating.
Read more about this event here…
Photo by Krista Canellakis
On a hot day, refuge from the heat can be found right in the centre of Copenhagen. Just a short cycle ride away from the Christianshavn Metro, the harbour baths at Islands Brygge offer Danes and visitors alike the opportunity to cool down in one of five pools while admiring the surrounding building spires and the hustle and bustle of the commute across Børsgade Knippelsbro bridge. Continue reading
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you sidewalk harvesting in Amsterdam, street food out of a shipping container and a look at Olympic city’s after the games are gone.
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Since 2003, Andy Day has been capturing the social interaction of tracers with the built environment. Parkour which originated from a military training discipline, is now used as a method of moving around the city through new and efficient means. Practitioners of the sport challenge their minds and bodies creating freedom of movement; paths defined by city planners are erased and a concrete playground is established, presenting and re-presenting unique ways of using living, social and commercial spaces. Individuals use only their bodies and their surroundings to propel themselves, negotiating obstacles in between to creatively reinterpret the subversion of urban spaces. Continue reading
Photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze takes vertiginous photos of Hong Kong in his photo series Vertical Horizons, challenging our spatial orientation within the concrete jungle.
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By Jason Neudorf
In Part I of this series, I suggested that many of the vibrant downtowns in North America are great places to raise families – or they would be if families could afford them. Unfortunately, the very limited supply of housing that can reasonably be described as urban means that a lot of Millennials will be destined for the leafy frontiers of suburbia. That is, unless housing markets are able to respond in a powerful way to increase the supply of urban housing. There are many signs that this response is beginning to gain momentum, and the cities that foster growth in the supply of urban housing will be well poised to attract the talent and investment necessary for success in the 21st century. Continue reading
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you a list of bike-friendly cities, community-oriented design at IDEAS City conference in NYC, and an infographic on saving the planet!
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Located deep in the Vancouver’s Pacific park are the remains of seven ‘Sentinels’. Hand picked by creative studio Dear Human, these grand Douglas firs were cut down over a century ago. The project offers an alternative perception to everyday landscapes by revealing the hidden potential of overlooked places. What remains are eerie empty eye sockets that have been given a second life with some fine crafted porcelain peepers. Continue reading
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