Web Urbanist covers a variety of topics all related to the overarching theme of communities and design, online and offline. For those of you just tuning in, we thought this would be a good time to do a roundup of the best of Web Urbanist so far. As it turns out, there is an even 50/50 split of top 6 posts: 3 concern online communities, design and images and 3 feature urban guerilla street art.

6) More Monthly Pageviews than People on Earth: An amazing study indicates that more pages are read on the Wikimedia Foundation’s various websites (including Wikipedia) than the Earth has inhabitants.

5) The Banksy Paradox: There is no doubt that Banksy is the highest profile street artist in the world - but his stencils and other work are full of curious contradictions and fascinating paradoxes. After writing about and featuring images of other great urban street art, it seemed impossible not to create an article on Banksy.

4) Urban Art and the Iraq War: This compelling graffiti is a clever play on light and shadow with layered symbolism concerning the war - a moving piece of guerilla street art, agree or disagree withs its message. Like the amazing tunnel house, this work brings street art out of urban areas and into more suburban residential areas.

3) Graffiti Without Vandalism: Light art is a kind of graffiti that is not only legal but also incredibly ephemeral. This photo collection captures some of the creatures, symbols, signs and tags created one moment and gone the next. A related post on reverse graffiti as guerilla marketing shows how non-vandalizing art can be profitable too.

2) Google Street View Privacy Concerns: Since Google has released the controversial Street View addition to Google maps, many have been concerned about privacy issues - amplified by the Big Brother Google camera van. A follow-up post showed the humorous side of Google Street View images.

1) Funniest Scenes to Stumble Upon: With over 50,000 pageviews, this humorous collection of images (that only fellow StumbleUpon users can fully appreciate) went incredibly viral.

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