Inner City Visions: 12 Eye-Opening Urban Eye Charts
Have no illusions, these awesome urban optical eye charts test not only your vision but the varied ways in which we visualize the world around us. ...
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Future of Wayfinding: Augmented Reality for Urban Bicyclists
Using augmented reality highlights, hints and cues to guide bikers through complex city paths and streets, this conceptual system addresses issues of wayfinding and safety, speculatively asking: ...
Growing Up: NYC Rooftop Farm Supports 1,200,000 Pounds of Soil
Brooklyn Grange is behind the two largest rooftop soil farms in the world, together growing 50,000 pounds of organic produce per year from 108,000 combined square feet, demonstrating the ...
Urban Melodies: Multiple-Exposure Street Scenes Remix Cities
Capturing the cacophony of urban life, this series of superimposed photographs renders local phenomena, regional monuments and international architecture in a strangely compelling ...
Ramping Up: World’s First Multi-Story Skateboard Park in UK
Designed to provide 1,000 square meters of recreational space across four floors, this multistory structure bends and curves to accommodate bowls and ramps for skaters who can move vertically ...
Mobile Village: Seattle Teens Build Micro-Homes for Homeless
Serving a nomadic homeless shanty town known as Nickelsville, the Impossible City project involves a group of a teenagers who are creating not just tiny houses but also solar power stations, ...
Secret Skies: See Starry Nights Normally Hidden by City Lights
With the rise of urbanization, an estimated 80% of the world population has never seen the Milky Way - and while rural dwellers see thousands of stars on a typical night, those in cities ...
Wanksy: Phallus Graffiti Draws Attention to Dangerous Potholes
In a quest to evoke a faster fix from city authorities, a lone street artist going by the name Wanksy is highlighting holes in the ground with (NSFW) spray paintings sharing one thing in ...
Old New Jersey Factory to House Earth’s Largest Vertical Farm
Opening this year in Newark, this 69,000-square-foot space will grow 2 million pounds of pesticide-free produce each year, turning an old steel factory into the largest indoor farm on the planet, ...
Dumpster Divine: 12 Flashy Trashy Artistic Dumpsters
Dumpsters may be grungy, grotty, gross-smelling garbage holders but these ubiquitous urban trash bins positively bloom just by adding a little art. ...
