Skip all practical considerations for a second and suspend any disbelief - now imagine what a truly nomadic urban society might look like, devoid of concerns of safety and perhaps some laws of ...
Wear your civic pride. Startup company CityFabric produces hand-crafted t-shirts, totes and prints bearing maps of thirteen cities around the United States including Atlanta, San Francisco, ...
When it comes to fire stations, simplicity and usability are foremost but that doesn't mean form has to take a back seat to function. These 12 hot designer fire stations are hook & ladder ...
Seeing art is one thing, but have you smelled it lately? These 11 scent-sational concept garbage trucks trash traditional artistic sensibilities while maintaining the “can”-do spirit today's ...
When it comes to ubiquitous utility in the service of street safety, orange traffic cones stand alone... except when they stand together and someone deigns to call the result Art. Traffic cone art ...
Like a carpenter who makes stairs, I'm always thinking one step ahead. Unfortunately the builders of these 12 strange staircases never arrived at a landing, leaving us to wonder where these spooky ...
It has been said that every city makes its own unique music, though that "music" is more like a discordant jumble of various urban noises. What would it sound like if a city really could make ...
When you're a firefighter, practice makes perfect... but where do they practice? Even the most sophisticated computer simulator can't replicate the hazards real towering infernos pose to ...
Urban environments are crowded with all kinds of sights that are so common they often just seem to fade into the background. Signs, buildings, cars, the odd package waiting on a doorstep - they ...
(Images via: Shanghai Cultural China, Boston.com, Arch Daily) When you're awarded the highly coveted position of official host city to the world’s latest, greatest and inarguably grandest ...
