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Author: Kurt Kohlstedt

WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedt

Graffiti Sans Vandalism: 5 Ephemeral Urban Light Artworks

Street artists are using simple glowsticks to produce an amazing variety of light art and graffiti. These tags, comics, creatures and shapes fade as fast as they appear, unless they is captured by ...

Lost Spaces & Urban Reuse: Hovering HighLine in NYC

Imagine being able to walk for miles through the heart of New York city - without ever touching the ground! Until a few years ago, these elevated railroad tracks running right through Manhattan ...

Freegans Find Ways to Creatively Reuse Society’s Leftovers

Freeganism is a truly fascinating way of approaching life, that involves reusing leftover food (dumpster diving), living in unused spaces (squatting) and avoiding jobs or owning vehicles whenever ...

5 Google Street View Images: Errors, Glitches & Mistakes

With so much focus on Google Street View privacy issues, many people have missed a whole subset of non-controversial but much more strange Street View images. Accidental recombinations and ...

Map of the Internet: Sexy Graphic, What Does it Tell Us?

Wow, a map/picture/image/representation of the entire internet - amazing except for the fact that, like many things, it is presented entirely without useful context. This nifty graphic has been ...

Map Made in Heaven! Want to Get a Date? Where to Move:

Perhaps it comes as no big surprise that the West Coast has way more single men and the East Coast has more single women by far. There is, after all, a reason why Sex in the City is based in New ...

Link Roundup: Graffiti & Street Art in Melbourne, Australia

For reasons no one seems to fully understand, Melbourne has become the world capital of street painting with stencils. More people search for Melbourne street art online than that of any other ...

Top 3 Look-Alikes: Second-Life Avatars vs Real Life Users

Many people who have an avatar (digital representation) in online communities like Second Life choose to appear completely different, but some people bear a striking resemblance to their virtual ...

Wikimedia: More Monthly Pageviews than People on Earth

According to Wikizine, Wikimedia Foundation websites bring in an astonishing estimated 7 billion+ page views per month between Wikipedias and other Wikimedia pages. This means that for each of ...

Silly, Satirical, Sublime: Urban Street Art Installation Projects

A WebUrbanist reader pointed out a potential problem with posting even really fascinating guerilla marketing images: such images are inevitably free advertising for the companies the advertise ...

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