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Month: December 2013

Top 40 of the Year: Essential 2013 Article List for Urbanists

As any experienced urbanist can tell you, city life is rarely dull and this year has proven no exception - from traffic-topping articles to staff-picked stories, here are WebUrbanist's must-read ...

Pointing Nowhere: Mysterious Giant Arrows in Remote Places

The remains of large concrete arrows can be found in patches of dirt and grass across the United States from New York to San Francisco. Many locals have wondered what they're for, seemingly ...

Virtual & Reality: 15 New York City Data Visualizations

Data is much easier for most of us to process when it's presented in visual form, and these 15 infographics and visualizations give us a (literal) picture of New York City that would be hard to ...

Color-Coded Cars: Time-Collapse Film Reorders Rush Hour

There is no computer-generated imagery behind this surreal-seeming scenography, but rather a skillful remixing of reality to sort actual automobiles by color. Artist and filmmaker Cy ...

HoJo’s Lost Mojo: 10 Deserted Howard Johnson’s Locations

Hundreds of orange-roofed Howard Johnson's hotels, motels and restaurants once served fried clam strips and ice cream to tired, hungry American travelers. ...

Secret Slums: Ramshackle Rooftop Villages of Hong Kong

These hidden shanty towns, often invisible from the streets below, sprawl like surrealist suburbs across the roofs of one of the most densely-populated and expensive cities in the ...

Beer Bath: Underground Brewery Converted to Thermal Spa

Lounge in large wooden vats that once contained gallons upon gallons of beer, gazing up at the original stone arches in subterranean vaulted chambers. The Hürlimann Brewery in Zurich, built in ...

Architectural Kaleidoscopes: Buildings Spun into Fractal Art

Reimagined, repositioned and recomposed, this photo manipulation series turns familiar elements of buildings into abstracted compositions that morph beyond architecture, bridging disparate worlds ...

Colorful Pop-Up: City Farm Storefront for Produce & Plants

This competition-winning design uses upcycled materials to frame a street-facing  experience, in part through a fresh take on 'window shopping'. Its aim: to create a unique and ...

Choir of Retro Computers Sing a Special Christmas Carol

"Hail the machines, sweet old machines, blow off the dust, wipe off the rust. Christmas has come, joy is foretold, for those of us you never sold. Still we are here, still full of cheer, just ...

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Remote and Abandoned: The Decaying Dutch Harbor Bunkers

Arboreal Architecture: 14 Houses Built Around & Within Trees

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