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Category Archives: News
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
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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
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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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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
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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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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 artificial beach from Vancouver, shipping container dining in San Francisco, pop-up cafes in Brooklyn, and Singapore’s … Read More
Posted in News, Social Cohesion, Sustainability
Tagged beach, Brooklyn, pop up cafe, public space, San Francisco, shipping containers, 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. Backyard For Rent If you live in New York City the High Line and Central Park are no longer your only options … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, News, Sustainability
Tagged backyard, density, etgar keret, Freiberg, Germany, High Line, landscape architecture, Lower East Side, New York City, poland, sustainable, warsaw
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OpenCity Launches Monthly Newsletter
OpenCity is excited to launch our monthly newsletter that will feature our best original articles from the past month and ideas we like all about public space and urban experiences. You will find the August installment here and you can … Read More
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