The Social Network
I recently ran into an old college friend on the street near my apartment in the East Village as I was walking to work.
View ArticleFriday Links: Tilt-Shift Rio, Pritzker Prize Winner, the “100 Mile House,”...
• Jarbas Agnelli and Keith Loutit capture Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival in their compelling short film The City of Samba. The use of tilt-shift photography renders the city and its colorful parade as a...
View ArticleFriday Links: Las Vegas Sprawl, Tromp-L’oeil Graffiti, Rooftop Bees, and More
One of NASA's Landsat satellites captured the expansion of the city's metro area population from slightly under 300,000 to almost 2 million between 1972 and 2010.
View ArticleFriday Links: Chicago’s Navy Pier, Land Art, a Lego Church, and More
This week, James Corner Field Operations' group was announced as the winner of Chicago's Navy Pier redesign competition.
View ArticleFriday links: Building a Bridge in a Day, a Skyscraper on Wheels, and More
Using "accelerated bridge construction" techniques, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation recently replaced an entire bridge—in just one weekend.
View ArticleFriday Links: A Musical Village, Steampunk Sustainability, Subway Portraits,...
All the furniture, cabinets, and floors make music in a slightly odd but cool village in New Orleans.
View ArticleFriday Links: Google’s World Wonders, a Cloned Village in China, and More
Just in time for planning your summer vacation, here's Google's latest.
View Article10 Things Every Urbanist Should Know about Mumbai
Presenting a BMW Guggenheim Lab guide to 10 enlightening and fun facts about Mumbai that you might not have encountered before.
View ArticleFriday Links: Berlin’s Creative Scene, a Hotel Made of Shipping Containers,...
Andreas Lamoth and Frederic Leitzke’s documentary paints a vivid picture of urban life in Berlin, from the perspective of artists, designers, and other creative people.
View Article100 Urban Trends: Upcycling
In this series of articles based on the Lab’s 100 Urban Trends glossaries, our writers are focusing on “trends” that are meaningful to them, and sharing insights on urban issues that shape our lives....
View ArticleSandra Eleta in Portobelo
Adrienne Samos looks at the creative journey of artist and photographer Sandra Eleta, whose return to Portobelo, a village on Panama’s Caribbean coast that she first visited as a child, continues to...
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