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Month: August 2007

All Gone: 7 (More!) Deserted Wonders of the Modern World

After the overwhelmingly positive responses to and praise for the original 7 Abandoned Urban Wonders article, we were compelled to create a sequel. Thanks to reader-submitted links and locations, ...

Burning Man 2007: World’s Largest Temporary City, Green?

Burning Man is an amazing annual event that takes places for one week a year in the remote Black Rock Desert. This location, also dubbed Black Rock City, is home to art and artists from around ...

Drop Spots: Share Secret Objects With Strangers in Cities

Drop Spots are the basis for a unique form of urban interaction. A Drop Spot is a place where you can exchange an object with a stranger in your city- pick one thing up and leave another behind. ...

10 Transformable, Convertible & Collapsible Urban Furnitures

(Check out our complete collection of Unusual, Creative and Transforming Furniture.) Cramped? As cities become denser, we all find ourselves wishing we had more space at times, or wanting to make ...

Ecological Subversion: Guerilla Gardening in Public Spaces

Have you ever wondered why so much public space seems to go to waste? Even apparently 'natural' green areas are carefully cultivated, requiring time, energy and water. However, these only produce ...

American Dream 2.0: Visionary Video of Associative Design

People used to dream of moving out of the city into single-family homes with white picket fences. More and more, however, the call for sustainability and an increased interest in urban living has ...

Urban Panoramics: 7 Illustrated City Scenes of the World

Kozyndan illustrate compelling scenes from major urban areas all over the globe, from San Francisco to Tokyo, New York to Newcastle. The Kozy-and-Dan artistic duo translates their urban travel ...

10 Urban Snaphots: Google Street View Pictures Freeze Time

Google Street View has changed the way that people interact with online maps as well as real cities. Controversial and illicit images as well as strange photographic glitches have only heightened the ...

Semi-Subversive: 3 Unusually Legal Urban Street Art Projects

People tend to think of graffiti as being necessarily illegal. While that may be the case much of the time, not all guerilla art breaks the law. Many urban artists manage to be creatively but legally ...

Interpreting Cities: Creative Urban Photography at 3 Scales

Creative urban photographers have a way of representing cities in new and different lights. Unusual urban photographs can cause one to rethink familiar perspectives and can open a city up to new ...

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