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17 Impossibly Colorful Cities You’ll Want To Visit Immediately
The word pretty isn’t often associated with the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. But gazing across the hills toward the notorious Santa Maria favela, you might think differently.
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The Top 10 Secrets of Grand Central Terminal
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Grand Central Terminal, Untapped New York is revealing the top ten facts you didn't know about Grand Central.
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Tiny Worlds
The CG team at Rushes brought to life the everyday urban world around our feet in "Tiny Worlds", a trilogy of micro-shorts with a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London's streets when we're not looking.
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Life at an Incredible Height
In Mumbai, paltry regulation means hundreds of new skyscrapers bring more lows than highs. Photographs of new construction, with titles named after the buildings’ advertising slogans.
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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes and Mangoes in an Urban Jungle
Hong Kongers are finding inventive ways to grow sweet potatoes, mangoes, and other edible goodies in an urban jungle.
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The slow decline of American Chinatowns
Chinatowns are a feature of many US cities, but some of the best known are succumbing to gentrification, campaigners say. Even one of the largest and most vibrant, in Manhattan, is slowly being invaded by luxury shops and apartment buildings.
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The Brutally Beautiful Wastelands of Outer Moscow
The seam where a city meets the country is an uncanny place. It's not rural, yet not exactly urban, either, a non-place often full of half-finished streets and isolated developments. Most of us only see these environments through the windows of our cars, but photographer Alexander Gronsky has spent the last four years in Moscow's outskirts, watching and photographing.
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10 Failed Utopian Cities That Influenced the Future
Some of the most famous cities in history were never built. These 10 Utopian cities may have been failures, but they expressed our ideas about what the future of human civilization could look like. And many ideas contained in them continue to influence us today.
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Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All
The Street Life Project, as it was called, was revolutionary in urban planning, changing not only the way we think about public spaces but also what can be learned in this kind of close observational research of human interaction. Whyte believed that if we knew how, say, the placement of benches, or a plaza’s orientation to the sun, affected people’s enjoyment of a public space, then we could go beyond mere observation into the realm of smarter policy.
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Car-Free City: Hamburg Announces Audacious 20-Year Plan
Germany may be known for its green political party and sustainable energy focus, but this daring plan to eliminate the need for automobiles entirely across the country’s second-largest metropolis is fresh and bold by any standard.
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The Growth Of Cities, Predicted By The Laws Of Physics
Physics can help us model everything from cell growth to the movement of planets. Apparently, it also understands how cities live and die.
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What Tech Hasn’t Learned From Urban Planning
The tech sector is, increasingly, embracing the language of urban planning — town hall, public square, civic hackathons, community engagement. So why are tech companies such bad urbanists?
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Adventures of a Serial Trespasser
Bradley Garrett, a photographer and researcher with a background in anthropology and archeology, has spent the past five years of his life exploring hidden and forgotten parts of cities all over the world.
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Abandoned in Alberta
Hadn't been out for a while so we took a little detour to see her - always special.
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Upon Leaving Wasaga
Peeling paint, rusty metalwork and weathered wood are three great signs that you've just found a place worth exploring.
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Newmarket School 1912
Empty school in Newmarket, Ontario.
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