Trend 9: Want To Claim Your City? There’s An App For That
Ownership of the city and its public space has become a big theme over the last years. While today’s placemakers, urban interventionists and community activators are concerned with ‘re-claiming’ physical spaces, the online world sees the rise of all kinds of location-based apps and games that enable users to claim ownership of public space in a digital world.
Read more →10 Trends For 2013
Dear readers, as the end-of-the-year trend storm in other parts of the blogosphere has subsided, the time has come for us to speak up and share our infamous Pop-Up City-flavored selection of urban trends and developments for 2013. We’ll be posting a fresh insight every day for the next two weeks. Stay tuned if you want to read something new.
Read more →Win A Copy Of ‘Indie Brands’!
Two weeks ago we published our review of Anneloes van Gaalen’s Indie Brands, a book that highlights 30 new-style, independent enterprises that inspire and tell a story. We’re happy to give away two copies of the book to our readers!
Read more →Best Of 2012
Here at The Pop-Up City it has become an end-of-the-year tradition to bring you a selection of the most interesting, thought-provoking and appealing articles that have been published over the last 12 months.
Read more →How To Brand A City Park
Browsing through the book Going Public: Public Architecture, Urbanism and Interventions, I found a project that deserves an article. A few years ago, design agency Byggstudio was asked to create a new visual style for Folkets Park in Malmö, Sweden. The designers came up with an entirely new and remarkable graphic identity for the city park.
Read more →Urban Gondolas: The Future Of Public Transport?
Bus, train, metro, cable car? Michael McDaniel, designer at innovation firm Frog Design, has launched a radical plan for a new form of public transportation in big cities — a system of gondolas.
Read more →German Designer Turns Dumpsters Into Tiny Houses
Here in Amsterdam we put our abusive neighbors in shipping containers, but German designer Philipp Stingl shows that good ol’ plastic garbage containers are good enough.
Read more →#Pinyourcity Contest Winners Announced!
Yesterday, Philips announced the 10 winners of the Livable Cities #pinyourcity contest. Launched on 4 October at The Pop-Up City’s conference Blogging the City in Amsterdam, the contest encouraged entrants to illustrate what makes their city livable and lovable through a series of images on Pinterest. Last week we visited London to evaluate the 25 shortlisted boards with a panel of fellow bloggers and city experts who determined 10 winners based on originality, imagination and the ability to inspire.
Read more →Win A Copy Of ‘Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities’!
Yesterday we published our review of Urban Think Tank’s book Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, that describes one of the world’s largest self-organized communities. We’re happy to give away two copies of the book to our readers!
Read more →Building Façade Plays Music When It Rains
During our search for fresh ideas and concepts for cities, we came across this façade of a building in Dresden, Germany, that responds to rain.
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