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Subway Bathroom

Our highly appreciated reporter in Hamburg Rudolf from Urbanshit recently wrote about a project by graphic designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann, who’s currently living…

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NYC BigApps: The Final Results


Last October I wrote about some initiatives that aim to improve the so-called user-generated city. One of those initiatives is the New York BigApps competition,…

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Dabbawalla: Hot Lunch Delivery By Mumbai’s Fastest

The iPhone app Pizza Hut has launched to order and get meals delivered is nice. But even more incredible is the story of Mumbai’s hot lunch…

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The Amsterdam Subway Dream


Amsterdam is building its 10 kilometers long North-South subway line. It’s an ultimate effort to change a village into a true metropolis. This leads to plenty of inevitable…

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What New Yorkers Are Reading Underground

Reading on the subway is a New York ritual. “Even without a seat, even while pressed with strangers into human panini, (…), even when stumbling home after a…

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Chris Pape’s Freedom Tunnel

During my holiday I read Jennifer Toth’s ‘The Mole People’, a terrific book published in 1993 about the urban legend of homeless people living in the huge…

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Find Your Way Underground With AR

We all know Augmented Reality (AR) is the next big thing. Enhanced by the iPhone’s 3.0 OS and the iPhone 3GS, AR startups, such as Layar

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How NYC Gets its Beer Delivered

Back in 2007, an artist called Junk made some great artworks regarding the city of New York. His work places the city’s public domains in another unexpected perspective,…

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Swings in Subways

Tiny efforts, lots of fun. Some people in San Francisco decided to make a subway ride a different experience by hanging a swing inside one of the trains.…

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New York: Subway Art Gallery

New York’s Museum of Modern Art running art project Atlantic Pacific is a nice gift to the city’s subway travellers. For more than a month, MoMA…

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The High Line

On Tropolism we found a few pictures of one of the nicest restructuring projects currently running: the re-skinning of New York’s former High Line. The photos are taken…

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London: Underground Banquet

The London Circle Line was already a good place for illegal parties and more legal knitting sessions… But this romantic banquet within the raw urban context of the London…

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