Tag Archives: cities

The 8-Bit City

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday July 17, 2010


Brooklyn-based interaction designer Brett Camper did some great work with these pretty 8-Bit city maps. The maps are designed with 1980s video games…

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New: Cities The Magazine

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday December 20, 2009

We just received some information about the launch of a brand new magazine about the urban sphere, entitled Cities. The first edition, which is a test issue (

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One Minute Glimpses of True City Life

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday August 25, 2009

If you’re curious what happens when a regular family in Addis Abeba wakes up, or how people are night clubbing in Hong Kong between four and five in…

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Zenobia: the Flexible Among the Invisible

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday January 28, 2009

Reading Italo Calvino’s novel ‘The Invisible Cities’, I found this great story about Zenobia, a flexible city avant la lettre. Calvino addresses perfectly the issue of a dynamic city…

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