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Whatever You Need, On Demand: 10 Apps That Streamline Urban Life

If you're that person who's always asking for a ride or help moving, or you're just too crazy busy to go grocery shopping or clean your own house, there's a range of apps that could make your ...

Secret Museum Hidden in an Abandoned Freight Elevator

Unlike all of New York City's flashy and well-known museums, this particular exhibition space is grungy, quirky and easy to miss. Located in an abandoned freight elevator on the edge of the ...

Billboard Trailers Turned into Tiny Parasite Apartments

Advertising is so ubiquitous that billboards aren't even restricted to fixed positions anymore; they're often found moving from one spot to another on trailers, always in search of those ...

Sensational Skate Park & Urban Climbing Wall in Spain

It's not just a skate park, it's an architectural landmark. Factoria Joven ("youth factory") is a skate park and climbing wall in Merida, Spain, which opened inĀ  March 2011. Its bright, modern ...

Sidewalk Disco: Wayfinding Lights to Dance Down Streets

Can you control a crowd with nothing more than an optical illusion? A group of researchers at Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications think so. They are developing a lenticular lens sidewalk ...

Drawing Conclusions: Documenting Every Building in New York

New York is one of the most culturally and architecturally fascinating cities in the world, as evidenced by the millions who flock there every year to get a taste of city life. One Australian ...

Remodeling Suburbia: Rerouting Classic, Car-Centric Design

The modern city is, for the most part, built around cars. We build enormous elevated roads and huge parking structures to accommodate our vehicles, but at what cost to the urban landscape and to ...

Off the Grid: From Sky Squatting to Subterranean Living

The term "off the grid" has been proudly used for many years by those who choose to produce their own electricity or live without electricity. But there's a whole other perspective to living off ...

Nine Eyes: A Human Perspective on Google Street View

Google's Street View has made it easier for us to find our destinations, but has it influenced us in other ways as well? When Google sent out a fleet of automobiles armed with GPS units, laser ...

Going … Up? Radical & Subversive Urban Rooftop Dwellings

Rooftops have long been popular urban substitutions for yards; city dwellers use their rooftops for sunbathing, grilling a few hamburgers, hanging clothes out to dry, or even a bit of rooftop ...

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