By Stephen Brophy
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In Beijing, an illegal mountain was built atop a 26 story high-rise
In Canada, renovations cause a headache for most home-owners. Oftentimes, you need a permit to reclad your house, to replace your windows, or to reshingle...
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Nextdoor: Social Media for Neighbourhoods
Most cities, especially those in Canada, are comprised of many neighbourhoods. Oftentimes, our neighbourhoods are as important to us as are our cities...
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From urban billboard to affordable housing
In Canadian cities, mammoth-like, urban advertising billboards are a common fixture. However, they are as well in Belgium. We know, because a Belgian...
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“Points”: The most advanced sign on earth
What if street signs knew where we wanted to go? What if they could even point us in the right direction? Brooklyn-based design agency, BREAKFAST, has...
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Interesting maps. Historical maps. BIG maps.
Introducing the BIG Map Blog. The curator (known only as the 59 kind) of the collection/blog, is an enthusiast of cartography and geographic information...
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Futuristic Skytran mass transit soon to be in Tel Aviv
Described by its developers as ‘the jetsons made into real life’, this innovative new system of personal rapid transit, designed by NASA and...
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Visualizing Portland’s age in seductive, coloured maps
A brilliant map created by Portland resident, Justin Palmer, shows the colour-coded ages of 544,033 buildings in the Portland metro area of Oregon. The...
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Dutch streets that eat urban air pollution
To maintain the theme of appreciating innovative dutch city building after last week’s post, we are continuing with another idea-import from the...
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Umbrella-canopy created over a Portugese street
The city of Agueda, Portugal has, for a second time, decorated a handful of popular shopping streets with colorful canopies of umbrellas. The installation...
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Dutch highways will soon glow in the dark
Daan Roosegaarde, from Studio Roosegaarde in the Netherlands, has been busy in the past year unveiling new smart-road infrastructure that, believe it or...
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Breather: unlocking private urban spaces
Our cities are enormous labyrinths of private and public spaces. Yet, within that enormity, most of those spaces are inaccessible. However, thanks to a...
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The Urban Observatory: learning by comparison
The Urban Observatory is a city comparison app that enables you to explore the living fabric of global cities by browsing a variety of themes while...