Street Smart: Solar Roadway Lights Up & Feeds Power Grid
Currently in crowdfunding, these hexagonal pavers can provide energy, melt accumulated snow and ice, light up with LEDs, all while being tough enough to support trucks weighing 250,000 ...
Tag: urban
Urban X-Stitch: Street Artist Cross-Stitches Yarn on Fences
Whether you want to call it a new art form or a simply a hipster hobby, an artist France is pushing street-side string art in amusing new directions. Not quite your ...
Groundless City: A Guidebook to Underground Hong Kong
Between raised walkways, subways, ferries, cable cars, a multi-block outdoor escalator and extensive double-decker bus system, it is possible to traverse a huge swath of Hong Kong without even ...
Dense City: Mixed-Use ‘Urban Alloy’ Transit Hub for New York
Taking advantage of air rights above existing an transportation nexus, this design integrates elevated train lines, apartments, offices and shops to create a nodal point within ...
Park & Slide: 100,000 Sign Up to Slip 300 Feet Down a Street
For one day only, residents of Bristol were offered just 360 'tickets to slide' (out of nearly 100,000 applicants) down a main city street at over 10 miles an hour, surrounded by thousands of ...
Ditch Your Car: Get From A to B Using Real-Time Transit Data
What if we could make alternative transportation ultimately faster, cheaper and more convenient than personally-owned cars, the dominant transport devices of the 20th Century? The sharing ...
IKEA 2014 Small-Space Set: 51 Designs from Cool to Kitsch
The sales pitch for this new 2014 series is compelling: 51 inexpensive designer objects made for young city dwellers, people who may be on the move more often or whose domiciles simply lack ...
City vs. Suburb: Walking One Mile in Streets or Culs-de-sac
A tale of two neighborhoods, these graphics (and their hybrid) stunningly illustrate how much further you can get on foot when you take a walk through an urban grid versus the suburban sprawl ...
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 ...
Urban Jungle Street View: 3D Hack Uses Hidden Depth Data
An explicitly illicit use of dimensional data buried in Google Street View, the Urban Jungle project adds eerie layers of post-apocalyptic green overgrowth to major cities around the ...
