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Retractable Stairs Open to Reveal Secret Urban Wheelchair Lifts

Getting around the city in a wheelchair can be challenging, but a British company called Allgood Trio has devised an interesting way to help wheelchair users get into and out of buildings with ...

Vanishing Vernacular: NYC Storefront Gentrification in Action

Overtly a straight-shot photographic compilation, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York shows the rich vernacular diversity of mom-and-pop shops across all five boroughs. Since ...

Futurbanist: 10 Award-Worthy 2014 eVolo Skyscraper Designs

From 3D-printed towers of sand to garbage-powered architecture of the seas, these eVolo Skyscraper Competition entries push the envelope in every possible direction, and a few impossible ones ...

Clever Counterfeit: Vacant Shops Pretend to be High-End

There's something a little off about the highly recognizable logos splashed across this retail complex in the Chinese city of Wuxi: beside a round green & white approximation of the Starbucks ...

Failed Jungle Utopia: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Brazil

The remains of Henry Ford's failed rubber-producing city, two rusting theme parks, intricate colonial facades and a railroad that set the scene for 7,000 deaths are among Brazil's fascinating ...

Giants in Living Color: Massive Street Murals by Etam Cru

Polish duo Sainer and Bezt, collectively known as Etam Cru, paint massive-scale murals of people and animals on blank building faces around the world. Their unexpected visuals liven up dreary ...

Top 40 of the Year: Essential 2013 Article List for Urbanists

As any experienced urbanist can tell you, city life is rarely dull and this year has proven no exception - from traffic-topping articles to staff-picked stories, here are WebUrbanist's must-read ...

Colorful Pop-Up: City Farm Storefront for Produce & Plants

This competition-winning design uses upcycled materials to frame a street-facing  experience, in part through a fresh take on 'window shopping'. Its aim: to create a unique and ...

Shadowy Secrets: Colorful Layering Creates Trick 3D Murals

Worthy of a double-take twice over, these convincing wall artworks reveal imaginary depths and amazing arrays of color ... all seemingly hidden behind dull peeling paint and inside innocuously ...

The Crumbling Shire: 7 Abandoned Wonders of New Zealand

Sheep have taken over the Shire, lost industry created ghost towns and the major earthquake of 2011 has left much of Christchurch cordoned-off and left to decay. While New Zealand may be best ...

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