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Street Art Critiques Car Culture
Read more: Street Art Critiques Car CultureIn 2001, Peter Gibson, a street artist, began by painting bike additional bike lanes onto the streets in Montreal because he was tired of how cars dominated the road. This transferred into more works criticizing car culture in general. Some…
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Wall Hunters: The Slumlord Project
Read more: Wall Hunters: The Slumlord ProjectWallhunter’s Slumlord Project is an innovative project in Baltimore, Maryland that will use street art to expose and publicize vacant and dilapidated housing and the responsible parties for those conditions. The project will use different street art forms to display…
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Pedestrian Critical Mass
Read more: Pedestrian Critical MassINVITATION Pedestrian Critical Mass We walk for pedestrians rights Saturday, June 29th @ 3:33 pm From Plaza Venezuela to Chacaíto Caracas, Venezuela We invite you to walk for a human Caracas where car driver and motorized respect pedestrian. Enough of…
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Existe Amor em SP
Read more: Existe Amor em SPSão Paulo went through a process of privatization of the public spaces. The local government implemented several rules that beneficiated the real state speculation, the city is expensive, and it’s not for the poor. Besides that, in october the elections…
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Wearable Portable Architecture
Read more: Wearable Portable ArchitectureThe “Wearable/Portable Architecture project” discussed the possibilities of having a locale create portable architecture based on the conditions of its environmental, urban and cultural conditions. It is structured to find ways in providing new arguments and sustaining an artistic impetus…
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Occupy Sandy relief effort puts Occupy Wall Street activists in the spotlight again a year after Zuccotti Park
Read more: Occupy Sandy relief effort puts Occupy Wall Street activists in the spotlight again a year after Zuccotti ParkBy Rebecca Davis and Meena Hart Duerson Those who believed the Occupy Wall Street movement was all but dead after its dramatic removal from Zuccotti Park last fall may have been surprised to see the group pop up again in…
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People’s Tours: A social history of the South End walking tour
Read more: People’s Tours: A social history of the South End walking tourIn early 2012, a group of artists, activists and assorted other odd balls got together to form People’s Tours. The idea was to give walking tours in the Boston area. Standard enough. But instead of the usual history, we would…
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Park(ing) Day: Global Movement for More Urban Open Space
Read more: Park(ing) Day: Global Movement for More Urban Open SpaceIn 2005, Rebar, a design studio in San Francisco, transformed a single metered parking space into a temporary public park. The area where this two-hour park took place was one that lacked public open space. This was the first Park(ing)…
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Robot Dogs and Other Weird Creatures Bring Nature to the City
Read more: Robot Dogs and Other Weird Creatures Bring Nature to the Cityby Natalie Pompilio Natalie Jeremijenko wants you to feed the animals. She encourages you to text the fish—and makes sure they’ll text you back. She turns moths into movie stars and believes the next big thing in urban transportation is…
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Oakland Wiki
Read more: Oakland WikiOakland Wiki (oaklandwiki.org) is a free website about Oakland that anyone can edit. It’s a wiki that can house any kind of information about Oakland, from historic figures to native plants to City Council meeting notes to your favorite leafy…