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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

Art of Protest: Student-Built Scale Model of $20 Billion ‘Bailout City’

After the Austrian government spent €19,000,000,000 to bail out a bank in 2014, a student group in Vienna created a giant urban model of a place Hypotopia in protest. This visionary city for ...

Digital Dynamo: Massive Motion-Activated Media Wall Animates Office

Spanning 1,700 square feet of interior walls in a Washington, DC office building, this stunning digital display cycles through different settings and seasons, reacting to workers as they walk ...

Urban Camo: Bus & Train Fabrics Turned into Wearable Textiles

Transportation system patterns, right down to seat cloth details, are designed to last and look good even when stained by dirt and spilled drinks over time, making them an oddly suitable choice ...

Scan & Draw: Color-Mixing Pen Can Make 16 Million Hues & Shades

A new pen aims to take art to the next level, letting users scan colors from their surroundings and deploy them, all via a single gadget. The Cronzy can be employed to scan plants, walls, cloth, ...

Legible Graffiti: Repainting Street Art for Digital-Age Audiences

Artist Mathieu Tremblin has hit the streets again, expanding on his portfolio of repainted tags, turning messy walls into neat and readable 'tag cloud' arrays. His past works have ...

Glitch Cities: Buildings Mysteriously Deleted from Chinese ‘Street View’

All kinds of architecture is being inexplicably erased from the Baidu Total View image database (analogous to Google Street View) ... and whoever is behind it is doing an oddly haphazard job ...

Vernacular Shantyscrapers: Reimagining Lagos as a Vertical City

Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria, a fast-growing metropolis that has already spilled over onto adjacent waters but needs to grow up as well as as out. Artist and architect Olalekan ...

Traffic-Proof Transit: Real Car-Straddling Bus Rolls Out in China

Initial plans to develop a lane-spanning bus in China were met with great enthusiasm but some skepticism, the latter of which is now being addressed via a real-life, full-sized ...

Aerial Views of Apartheid: Drone Photos Show Rich vs Poor Divides

Though the apartheid ended decades ago, many physical barriers remain in South Africa, highly visible in the built environment ... especially from above. Roads, rivers and strips of open ...

Broken Ground: Poignant Earthquake Memorial at Epicenter in China

A visceral memorial to the nearly 100,000 victims of China's 2008 earthquake, this weathered-steel monument and museum conjures images of cracked Earth left in the wake of a quake. The ...

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