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Lagos: the megacity

8 month ago

nelson : Lagos: the megacity - Fascinating and frightening story of a chaotic 8 million person city

Tags : africa city cityplanning lagos nigeria poverty urban urbanism

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Myanmar's new capital

12 month ago

nelson : Myanmar's new capital - Insanity of an authoritarian regime

Tags : authoritarian batshitinsane burma city design myanmar naypyidaw tickytacky urbanplanning via:boingboing

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Die Stadt, Frans Masereel, 1925

19 month ago

philgyford : Die Stadt, Frans Masereel, 1925 - Great wood cuts. (via City of Sound)

Tags : cities city diestadt fransmasereel illustration top via:cityofsound woodcuts

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BatanCity

19 month ago

Linkorama : BatanCity - Imaginary city in a wiki, started by Paul Youlten

Tags : city fiction wiki

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The New York Review of Books: City Lights

28 month ago

philgyford : The New York Review of Books: City Lights - Review of Tristram Hunt's 'Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City'. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)

Tags : article cities city class history newyorkreview nyrb philanthropy top uk victorian

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An old "We Make Money Not Art" post details the French Yellow Pages using clean tags to promote t...

34 month ago

plasticbag : An old "We Make Money Not Art" post details the French Yellow Pages using clean tags to promote themselves around Paris - I {heart} the idea of clean tags - even though it puts advertising in completely inappropriate all-pervasive places - there's something great about people accidentally performing public services in the name of advertising...

Tags : advertising art city cleantags design marketing roadart streetart

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Awesome animation of a man walking composed out of stencilled imagery

46 month ago

plasticbag : Awesome animation of a man walking composed out of stencilled imagery - From a presentation by Timo at Design Engaged. Everyone went ooooooh. I particularly like the fact that you can pause it at any point through and see what it's been tagged onto.

Steve Cook : Town-walking robot stencil - Holy crow, is this a gorgeous project. A graffiti flipbook of a man/robot walking integrates into the city around it.

cameron : Graffiti animation - Using stenciled graffiti to make an animation

Nelson Minar : Animated graffiti - Flash animation, music (via Metafilter)

Tags : animation art beautiful cities city cool design designengaged flash fun glorious graffiti latvia oooh street tagging urban graf stencil video

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