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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

Creative Crosswalks: Artist Adds Color to Brighten Crossings for Students

Part art project and part urban safety experiment, this series of Funnycross installations in Madrid have been positioned outside a cross section of city schools. Designed by Bulgarian ...

Binational Megacity: Master Plan Designed to Span US-Mexico Border

Border City is being designed as a bridge between nations, a novel approach to creating international unity at a time when some politicians call for building walls. Proposed by architect ...

Art Exhibitionism: Neighbors Threaten Lawsuit Over Museum Voyeurs

Visitors to the new panoramic rooftop deck of the Tate Modern are being told not to take pictures ... and not just of artwork on display inside the galleries: voyeuristic snapshots inside ...

The Lantern: Dementia Villages Replicate Small Towns Inside Big Boxes

Complete with a Main Street, a barber shop and hardware store, this village-in-a-box is designed to make elderly patients with memory loss feel at home in an unexpectedly interior small-town ...

Science City: Futuristic Research Complex to Vitalize Egyptian Desert

A new 125,000-square-foot science complex to be built outside Cairo will combine research, learning and museum facilities in a future-focused structure designed by competition-winning ...

Codex Silenda: Solve Puzzles to Turn Pages in this Crafty Wooden Book

Unlike The Maze and other classic puzzle books, the Codex Silenda brooks no cheating, forcing readers to solve elaborate puzzles on each page before proceeding to the next. Somewhere ...

VW Doubleback: Hacked Camper Van Unfolds into Huge Mobile Home

The recent comeback of modernized (and modified) mobile homes has seen many novel transformations of cars and trucks into various sizes of living space, but the Doubleback may have more secret ...

Industrial Rehab: Ruins Provide Framework for Expansive Beach House

A stunning blend of old and new, this lovely oceanfront home is intertwined with remnants of an industrial ruin; the two are combined while differentiating existing from added ...

Spellbinding Visuals: Magical Book Artwork Tells Surrealistic Stories

A series of book-centric illustrations (now collected into one big 'book of books') by Seoul artist Jungho Lee explores realms of impossibility through the deconstruction and re-imagining of ...

Black Rock City’s Biggest Art Car: Converted 747 Lands at Burning Man

  A temporary metropolis for tens of thousands built annually in Nevada's remote Black Rock Desert, the Burning Man festival is famous for its extreme architecture and creative art cars, ...

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