urbanism
A New App Illuminates the Hidden Histories of Everyday Places
'Poetic Places' uses geolocation to hit you up when you happen across a place described or recorded in literature, poetry, and paintings.
How Urbex Became the Kinfolk of Trespassing
In efforts to put brands into everything, an edgy and illegal exploration becomes just another extreme sport.
Why Residents of Mexico City Are Organizing Themselves Against Parking Meters
Drivers flying into a rage upon being ticketed are scenes of daily life in Mexico City, but some residents are banding together to fight what they call a corrupt and opaque program that is only whitewashing certain neighborhoods.
Virtual Animals Invade the Streets of Bristol
Interactive projected creatures will hop, skip, and scurry around the city in September, thanks to experimental architecture studio, LAX.
Explore the Future of Vertical Living in an Interactive High-Rise Documentary
Filmmaker Katerina Cizek releases the final chapter of her seven-year-long project inquiry into the urban fixtures.
Enter an Electric Vortex of Smartphone-Captured Light Paintings
A stunning new series from photographer Keow Wee Loong sets out to document "the feeling of being of being one with the speed of light."
The World’s Most Wasteful Megacity
Welcome to the most wasteful city in the world—a densely populated, steadily aging, consumerist utopia.
Escape the City with an Aerial Montage of Some of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth
Celebrate Earth Day early with 'Beyond,' an audiovisual experiment designed to take you "Beyond the city, beyond the noise, beyond the buzz of our always-on world."
Hyper-Detailed Illustrations Imagine the Cities of the Future
Austrian design duo Atelier Olschinsky unleashes their newest series of digitally manipulated imaginations of urban chaos.
Step into an Architectural Installation with Feelings of Its Own
'Emotive City,' from brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos, represents a new philosophy on architecture.
Egypt's Silicon Valley-Inspired Plan to Build a Utopian Capital to Replace Cairo
Egypt says it's going to build a brand new Capital city for five million people, from scratch.