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Drop Spots: Turning Public Space Into A Secret Mailbox

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday September 21, 2009

Speaking about a city that has to become more exciting, online applications can do a job that’s worth a million. I recently stumbled upon this website called

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Turning Urban Nightlife Into a Game

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Tuesday June 30, 2009

The New York Times and Bright report about a new, free, smartphone application by Dennis Crowley called Foursquare. Foursquare seeks to turn…

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Urban Games, Part 3

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday February 5, 2009

During the last days we have written about the phenomenon of urban gaming, coming with beautiful examples of youngsters chasing each other in the streets of today’s world cities. Those…

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Urban Games, Part 2

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday February 2, 2009

Yesterday we wrote about a two great urban games: ‘Capture the Flag’ in Toronto and ‘Idiotarod’, taking place in many American cities. We found out about another one, which is…

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Urban Games

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday February 1, 2009

After the sudden rise and immediate fall of the flash mob, a more profound phenomenon in urban areas has set its roots: urban gaming. The urban experience games…

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