Emilie Giles is an interaction designer who recently launched Lost London, a pervasive game that focuses on the forgotten places and networks that exist within the…
Urbanism is marketing and marketing is urbanism. That could be a leading phrase of this blog. In fact, more and more marketing initiatives take the urban sphere as…
Birmingham-based webdesigner Matthew Somerville created a great mash-up that provides live insight in locations of all Underground trains in and around London. The yellow…
Posted in Technology | Also tagged google maps, live, london, map, mapping, mash-up, metro, real-time, tracking, trains, underground |
Metropolitan life can be close to a real survival. The daily struggle people in metropolitan areas around world have to undergo is one of the main themes in…
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…
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,…
Posted in International Practices | Also tagged application, ar, augmented reality, bigapps, city, datamining, lifestyle, metro, new york, nyc, open data, path, taxi |
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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Also tagged culture, dabbawalla, delivery, distribution, food, logistics, lunch, management, metropolis, mumbai, network, train |
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
