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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you the best subway maps in the world, a children’s playground in an industrial park in Madrid, Vancouver’s … Read More
Posted in Accessibility, Aesthetics, News
Tagged Adaptive Reuse, BC Place, Children's Playground, Madrid, Parks, Subway Maps, Tokyo, Vancouver
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you the case for sustainable streets, wayfinding in the NYC subway, nine cool projects under freeways, and the … Read More
Posted in News
Tagged New York City, signage, Subway, Underpass Park, urban design, Waterfront Toronto, wayfinding
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you a video love letter to Toronto’s modernist architecture of the 1960s, a London architecture student’s vision for … Read More
Posted in News
Tagged David Byrne, garden, High Line, London, modernist architecture, New York, public space, Toronto, Vancouver, video
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you two stories from Vancouver, one about appliance ‘art’ and one about putting parks in car parking spaces, … Read More
Posted in News
Tagged Oslo, parking, parklets, public space, sculpture, soundscapes, Vancouver, Viva Vancouver
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September Newsletter Now Out
Our September newsletter features our best original articles from the past month and ideas we like all about public space and urban experiences. You will find the September installment here and you can subscribe for future newsletters on the right … Read More
OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you alternative playground designs, retrofitted gas stations, the Copenhagen wheel, and a playful public space for adults.
Posted in Health, News
Tagged Copenhagen, cycling, gas stations, playgrounds, retrofits
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Outdoor Films Open Toronto Up
In a parking lot, under the freeway and beside billboards. Every Thursday, the Open Roof Festival transforms a dead zone on Toronto’s lakeshore into an uber-urban setting outdoor movie house. The parking lot is tucked behind a brewery that sponsors … Read More
Posted in Social Cohesion, Toronto
Tagged Brewery, Eco Pirate, Lakeshore, movie, Open Roof Festival, September 1, Toronto
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you an invasion of neon bikes in Toronto, a bookstore in a parking space in New York, post-industrial … Read More
Posted in News
Tagged bikes, Cleveland, Netherlands, New York, post-industrial, public space, recreation, Toronto, Utrecht
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OpenCity Partners With Picnic Festival 2011
We’re pleased to announce that we are a partner of PICNIC Festival 2011! PICNIC Festival is an annual three-day event that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology and business to explore new solutions in the spirit of co- creation. … Read More
Posted in Amsterdam, News
Tagged Amsterdam, business, creativity, design, infrstructure, media, NDSM Warf, Picnic Festival 2011, science, society, sustainability, techonology, urban futures
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you innovative urban libraries from around Europe, user-created public spaces in Hong Kong, sustainable cooling systems in Stockholm, … Read More
Posted in Accessibility, News, Social Cohesion, Sustainability
Tagged Germany, Madrid, New York City, Stockholm, street furniture, sustainability
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