Secret City: Illegal Architectural Interventions in Tawian
Beyond the 'official city' of Taipei, where modernization and beautification efforts are glossing over the city's natural and historical origins, there is Instant City. Using Taipei's ...
Tag: Urbanism
Now and When: The Radical Future of Urban Australia
Many futurists and future-minded laypeople believe that the future of civilization lies in the water. If the global climate continues to get warmer and the water level rises, land will become a ...
Beyond Brutalism: Creative Modernist Concrete Architecture
Concrete as a building material has been used at least as far back as the Roman Empire. In the modern age, the overuse of concrete in Soviet-style blockhouse construction - Brutalism - has ...
Retrofuture Urbanism: 10 Fantastic Cities of the Future
Urban planners, sociologists and science fiction writers have long dreamed of futuristic utopias at sea, on land or in space. These 10 examples showcase some of the weird, wild, and workable plans ...
Televolution: TV’s 10 Steps From Boob Tube to YouTube
Television exploded onto the social scene as an essential component of Baby Boom culture just over 60 years ago. TV also fostered the growth of geek culture - Star Trek and the Trekkie phenomenon ...
15 Creative, Innovative & Hilarious Parking Solutions
As much as people love to drive, all good things must come to an end: the parking spot. Problem is, the number of cars have grown much faster than the amount of parking space. Something's gotta ...
Organic Architecture: 12 Beautifully Curved Buildings
Organic: shapes, methods and patterns modeled after those found in living systems. When applied to architecture, the results can be interesting at least, mesmerizing at best and are always a ...
Building Puzzles: 15 Awesome Architectural Optical Illusions
As architects struggle to balance aesthetic appeal with practical considerations, many are finding the best way to create bold, interesting, even mind-bending features is through the use of ...
Crowded House: 5 Silly Small Homes & Cheap Tiny Houses
(images via: Wikimedia and Wickedblog and House Alive!) As the world's population density climbs and cities become more crowded, it's becoming necessary to fit even more housing into ...
Homeless & Nomad Culture: Car Living to Couch Surfing
An estimated 100 million people worldwide are "homeless" ... but what is homelessness? Is a squatter homeless? What about someone who stays in a shelter each night? A Web Urbanist article on ...
