City one minutes
Have you ever wondered about Ulan Bator or Medellin’s everyday life ? This website documents minutes of cities from around the world, hour after hour. The result is a as rough as inspiring material.
Ulan Bator - 14:00 has made my day.
A nicely done video by Frederico Gonzalez and Ombú presenting twenty six major architecture projects following the alphabetic order of their conceptors’ names.
JR is an artist belonging to the streets, of Paris first and of the whole world now. His Inside-out project is not only great urban art “the street is the biggest art gallery” but reminds us all what are cities’ first richness : their inhabitants.
“A connected world would allow civil society to take lead in transforming cities. Only if new collective intelligence tools developed by digital technology are available. UFO provides those tools and promotes their use worldwide because (…) involving civil society is the key to liveable and sustainable cities”.
About 80 hidden or forbidden places open for three days to the public. For the second time, Paris Face Cachée, an initiative launched by the city of Paris which is keen to promote a more interactive and innovative tourism, reveals hidden treasures of its territory.
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As part of a series called The Perennial Plate, this video presents the story of two chinese rooftop farmers from Beijing and Hong Kong revealing a burgeoning new movement of urban farming in so dense urban China.
the NewScientist publishes the dynamic map of more than 5 millions bicycle rides done since 2010, year that london launched his public bicycles network. The video, created by Jo Wood, London City University shows how the number and destinations of rides evolved and reveals favorite destinations or departure points such as King’s Cross St Pancreas, Hyde Park, Waterloo Station…an interesting tool to improve the quality of urban mobility !
(Source: bcove.me)
Cycle de conférences organisé par la Fédération française du paysage sur les Atlas du Paysage au Pavillon de l’Arsenal / Paris, France
“Si vous voulez flâner dans Nantes ou Berlin en étant sûr de vous perdre ou redécouvrir votre ville sous un nouveau jour, vous pouvez suivre ces étranges cartes. Pliées, cartonnées, elles ont tout de vraies cartes, sauf leur contenu. Décalées, remplies de noms inconnus et de zones déformées, elles invitent à l’errance”.
Poetry and sense of place of these street paintings, by Spanish street artist Sam3,
first painting was made in Buenos Aires, 2009
Second painting in Murcia, 2006
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