People + Streets = Active Urban Life
In order to make the most out of the city's idle space and to enhance the quality of life, the Department of Transportation of Los Angeles has launched the concept 'People St'. Communities can apply for approval to create projects that turn more than 12,000 kilometers of unused streets into active, vibrant and accessible public space into plazas, parklets and bicycle corrals.
DIY Kit Encourages Urbanites To Share Their Tables With Strangers
'Mesa Livre', which means 'free table', is a project that intends to encourage people to share their tables in restaurants with others. Not only to free up space, but with the intention of allowing people the means to meet new friends.
Floating Office For Amsterdam’s Canal Cleaners
Waternet, the company responsible for keeping Amsterdam's canals clean and free from rubbish, just got a new, floating, office which rises and falls with the water level.
A Swing Of Epic Proportions
Australian architect Jesse Lockhart-Krause has proposed 'Balloon Swing' for the Folly 2015 competition by the Architectural League in Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York.
Beijing Metro Trains Become E-Book Libraries
Beijing Metro Transportation Railway (MTR) and the National Library enable commuters to read esteemed novels on the go. By scanning QR-codes placed in metro trains, the public can borrow e-books and read them on their devices.
Love Letters To The City
Art collective ICY Signs reactivates communities in Baltimore with a series of urban 'love letters' onto walls in neighbourhoods that are usually over-run with violence, drug abuse, abandoned houses and neglect.
Industrial Strength Parking Lot Converted To Industrial Strength Coffee
Most people think they are nothing without coffee. Well, Simon Jaramillo, owner of The Reformatory Caffeine LAB, would literally be nothing, seeing as the coffee bean industry has been his family's profession for around 110 years. Hailing from Colombia, the fourth generation bean farmer decided to up sticks to Australia and start up a coffee shop.
Never Get Lost In A City Again With These Vibrating Bike Handlebars
A new, vibrating bicycle grip has made navigation on the go become super easy. Instead of sticking your nose into a map, paper or digital, you can enjoy zooming around without fear of getting hopelessly lost.
The Fountain Of Health
What may sound like a highly bizarre concept is actually a new method, from Bureau A, to manufacture health supplements. Their Spirulina Fountain, located in a public park of Geneva, is an innovative fountain/laboratory hybrid that wittily combines the production of intense blue-green algae with the contemplative Italian gardens of the 16th century.
Mapping Hidden Patterns In Our Cities
Laura Kurgan is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University in New York, where she is Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL).
Pedestrian Bell: The Urban Gadget We’ve Been Waiting For
Living in an urban area has all sorts of advantages, but every urbanite knows the frustration of moving through a crowded street or on a busy sidewalk when you're in a hurry. A couple from Tokyo comes up with a long-awaited solution — a little bell for pedestrians to notify others they have to go out of the way.
Villages In The City: A Guide To South China’s Informal Settlements
Villages in the City: A Guide to South China's Informal Settlements is the second book in a series on the development of cities in southern China by Dutch architect and urban designer Stefan Al.
Tee Off During Tea Break With Walmart Brazil
What better way to fight off labels like "faceless corporate monster" than planting a mini-golf course on your head office roof!
World’s First 3D Apartment Complex Printed In China
Last week the Chinese company Winsun 3D-printed a six-story apartment building and a huge 1,100 square meter villa.
Make Your Name Stick With Laptop Marketing
The majority of freelancers pound out hours behind their laptops with a mug of coffee at hand. This has seen coffee shops growing into safe-havens for unimaginable numbers of caffeine-craving, sector-specialists. With the majority of random cafe chit chat beginning and ending at pleasantries exchanged with a barista, often we have no idea what sort of brilliant person we are having a cuppa beside.
