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Car Parklet: Bold Intervention Takes Over Occupied Parking Spaces

Artist Benedetto Bufalino has never shied away from the wild, surreal and unexpected; previously, he has transformed abandoned cars into pizza ovens, phone booths into aquariums, concrete trucks ...

Urban Hacking 101: Guides & Tutorials to Transform your City

If your city isn't meeting your needs, just hack it. Urban hacktivism is a form of creative, citizen-led problem solving that often goes behind the backs of officials and institutions to get ...

Desire Paths: When Design and the Needs of Users Diverge

These days, "user experience" tends to refer more to the digital realm than our physical environment, but it's no less relevant to roads and sidewalks than to websites and software. When creating ...

Hack Your City: Guerrilla Grafters’ Manual for Making Ornamental Trees Edible

You don't have to ask permission to make your city more abundant, growing food where once there was none. Sometimes this type of urban hacktivism is obvious to passersby and thus, susceptible to ...

Guerrilla Guidance: DIY Street Signs Make Urban Life More Interesting

You’re hurrying along the sidewalk on the way to work, running late and not in the greatest mood, when you see a sign in the adjacent field that simply reads “PLEASE WAIT HERE, YOUR FUTURE ...

Occupy Urban Spaces: 10 Guerrilla Modifications to City Infrastructure

Nobody knows the needs of a city better than the residents who navigate it each day, so who better to edit, adapt and upgrade urban spaces to make them cooler and more useful? Urban ...

Cats, Not Ads: Feline Photos Take Over London Tube System

The same ad spaces that shouted about insurance and laundry detergent last week now contain nothing but fluffy cats, as an art collective uses the internet’s number-one obsession to temporarily ...

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