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Author: SA Rogers

S.A. Rogers is a veteran print and web author covering architecture, design, art and more. With years of experience writing for WebUrbanist, hers is one of the core voices that defines the site. She has an uncanny knack for discovering and sharing hidden built environments, including abandoned places, world wonders, monumental mysteries and other urban secrets, some of which are hidden in plain sight.

Street Art War: Banksy vs. The Gray Ghost in New Orleans

(image via: howieluvzus) When Banksy visited New Orleans in 2008, the renowned graffiti artist wasn't just leaving behind his particular brand of social and political commentary on Hurricane ...

Cover Up! 15 Ingenious iPad Case Designs & Custom Covers

Watching movies, reading e-books, browsing the web – with so many uses for the iPad taking it everywhere from the airport to the beach, some enthusiasts need a variety of cases for protection, ...

Here Today, Drawn Tomorrow: 16 Future Visions of 10 Cities

Will the San Francisco of the future be a bleak post-apocalyptic nightmare, or a sparkling eco-metropolis of algae-harvesting towers? How will the world's largest cities deal with climate change, ...

Small Miseries: Eerie Ceramic Scenes Sculpted by Carole Epp

Cutesy, feel-good figurines they're not: one little girl has an eye gouged out, a boy is crucified on the golden McDonalds arches, and an anthropomorphized rabbit carries the severed head of a ...

Portable Cities: Suitcase Architecture Made from Clothing

What connection does a discarded sweater on a subway have with the city in which it's found? For Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, the used clothing of a city's inhabitants take shape as ...

Retro-Futurism: 13 Failed Urban Design Ideas & Concepts

Many an architect has dreamed up visionary plans for city centers, but few have actually seen their designs come to fruition in a real live urban setting. And while many such unbuilt concepts are ...

Guerrilla Takeover: Activists Replace Ads with Art

(images via: martin reis) Last year, Toronto citizens asked themselves a question that led to an unprecedented law: Why should we have to look at so many billboards? In April 2010, the city ...

13 Most Weird & Wonderful Collections of Stuff on the Web

You don't have to travel the back roads of the world to see bizarre and amazing collections of unusual objects – some of these wacky museums are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, right at your ...

Body Art: Creations Made of Human Flesh, Blood & Bones

What could be more personal and human than a cast of your head – made from your own frozen blood? The human body has been used as a canvas for all sorts of art, but perhaps more interesting and ...

3G Geek Art Show: Ghostbusters, Goonies & Gremlins

Ghostbusters, Goonies and Gremlins: Is this the trifecta of geeky '80s awesomeness? Clearly, LA's appropriately named Gallery 1988 thinks so, as they've dedicated three weeks in September to ...

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