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Urban images features everything from crazy parkour-running acrobats to subversive graffiti artists, thriving city centers and abandoned civic monuments. Enjoy your unique visual tour through photography of our times from around the world!

Inception Park: Impossible Roller Coaster in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires becomes a fantasy urban playground in this fun video by Black Sheep Films, featuring roller coasters with no tracks that zoom through the city.

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Refuge of Refuse: The Trashiest City on Earth

Brimming with trash, Garbage City is the destination for all of Cairo's refuse - but it's not a dumping ground. 30,000 people called the Zabbaleen live here.

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Flying People Zoom Through the Sky in Manhattan

Onlookers were fascinated and flummoxed when three human figures appeared in the New York City sky, zooming around buildings and bridges.

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City-Shaped Design: 13 Urban-Inspired Objects

These 15 decorative and functional objects, from handkerchiefs to power strips, are inspired by skyscrapers and city streets.

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Billboard House: Reclaiming Sky-High Commercial Space

This billboard house concept by design team Apostrophy's turns sky-high urban advertising space into livable multi-story abodes with amazing views.

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Abandoned Hollywood Theater Hidden Above New York Bodega

These photos give us a glimpse of a nearly century-old abandoned theater above a grocery store in New York, in a building which is due to be demolished.

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RedBall Project Takes Interactive Urban Art on Tour

A huge inflatable red ball travels around the world, showing up in cities like Toronto and Abu Dhabi, squeezed into entryways and hovering above the street.

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Captured Live: 'Trapped People' Street Art Project

Brooklyn-based artist Dan Witz shocks passersby with ultra-realistic painted images of people trapped behind grates in urban buildings.

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Lisbon Lights Up with Modern Christmas Decorations

The city of Lisbon, Portugal got creative in the face of budget issues this year with an annual Christmas light display that's as festive as ever.

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Antwerp's Abandoned Tunnels House Subterranean Museum

The abandoned metro tunnels beneath Antwerp turn into an underground architectural museum mimicking an archaeological site in this intriguing proposal.

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