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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 ...

Book City: Retail Space for Reading Mimics the Look of Urban Spaces

The appearance of the city outside - complete with crosswalks and grids resembling aerial views of urban blocks - acts as a transition space between the entrance of a bookstore and the quiet, ...

The City Is Your Living Room: 15 Modern Street Furniture Designs

Smart, well-designed urban seating encourages more interaction with the cities we live in and with each other, infusing them with vibrancy and a sense of connection. It's even cooler when it's ...

Art of Protest: Student-Built Scale Model of $20 Billion ‘Bailout City’

After the Austrian government spent €19,000,000,000 to bail out a bank in 2014, a student group in Vienna created a giant urban model of a place Hypotopia in protest. This visionary city for ...

Pipe Dreams: 15 Totally Tubular Scaffolding Creations

Scaffolding usually helps prevent people from getting hurt on the job. If someone is hurt while working on a construction site then they may want to see a lawyer to see if they can get ...

Pigeons on Patrol: Birds with Backpacks Monitor London Air Pollution

Not all pigeons are rats with wings. Some of them actually strap on tiny backpacks and go to their jobs every day, just like the rest of us. In fact, a flock of pigeons in London play a central ...

Get Booked: ‘A Burglar’s Guide to the City’ by Geoff Manaugh

Take a break and enter the world of urban villains, who see and seek out hidden opportunities in built environments, forever on the lookout for architectural workarounds and infrastructural ...

Out of Surface Space, Island of Singapore Expands Underground

Bound by water on all sides, the city-state of Singapore is pioneering subterranean urban development, starting with storage and transportation systems and escalating with plans for power ...

Past Preserved in Paper: Miniatures Document Gentrification

Today, that charming old brick building on the corner might be a market where you can still grab a six-pack at a decent price; within mere months, it could be knocked down for a gleaming ...

Hilltop Village: Mini Neighborhood Tops a Green-Walled Store

Fittingly enough for a city that’s all about sprawl, this hilltop village concept for Los Angeles combines residential and retail functions in a way that preserves the conventional ...

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