Technology is a core content area not only for WebUrbanist but in our daily lives whether we like it or not. These innovations, creations and aberrations are meant to incite conversations about the past, present and future relationships of humans and the technologies that we deal with all the time and that envelop, support and grow our urban environments in ways we can often not predict.
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of your favorite websites? According to Jeff Lam and Josephine Yatar, there is a whole unseen world of activity happening behind every web ...
When the wheel was invented, most of society threw its hands up and said "this is it!" Not all inventors are so narrow-minded. These visionaries, who took one look at their own legs, made a ...
Imagine a world in the not-so-distant future - a world so ravaged by war that the human race has become desperate to turn things around. In the midst of this desperation, the Pentagon's "weird ...
Try to describe a recent dream to someone and the details are likely to dissolve into absolute nonsense. Dreams themselves are ephemeral, fleeting and altogether mysterious. But trying to figure ...
Doors, cabinets, and carving boards are the extent to which most people have wood in their homes. Who would ever think to use wood for anything as crazy as making a car? Or as a sculpting medium? ...
It's well known that smashing something - a dish, a TV, a watermelon, or whatever else is within reach - is great therapy when you're stressed. All over the world, clubs and organizations are ...
Some of the coolest extinct animals are now the most mundane. A giant rodent the size of a small car is much more exciting than the one scurrying on the subway track. Prehistoric animals almost ...
Social media has sprung into the public consciousness like a bat out of a hell, and with it, has brought sweeping changes in the way people operate online. Social shopping, online marketplaces ...
Though lighthouses have captured much of the glory when it comes to seacoasts, shorelines and shipwrecks, their usefulness quickly fades when thick mists and pea-soup fogs roll in. At times like ...
Amusement parks offer an adrenaline-soaked escape from reality, transporting us into fantasy worlds where pretty much anything is possible – and sometimes, the concept art for a proposed theme ...
