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UR{BNE} Films is an urban design and architecture film festival, coming up in Brisbane this May and in London this June! The main intention behind this very interesting project is to showcase films that inform and inspire about urban design, architecture, public spaces and collaborative design process, where communities and city design can be the subject, the background, the actor and lead role in the wide mixture of feature films, documentary and shorts… ...

I already wrote one or two times about nice parkour and freerunning videos, but this time I will show you the great trailer of a grandiose film about these two kinds of movement in urban space. My Playground is the title of that documentary film, by Kaspar Astrup Schröder. It’s not one of these regular action-videos, but it has a deeper theoretically background… The film explores the way Parkour and Freerunning is changing the perception of urban space and how the space is changing the traceurs and freerunners. Mainly set in Copenhagen the film follows the making of the first dedicated parkour park in the world. Designed by the danish team, Team JiYo. The film also travels around the world to Japan, United States, United Kingdom, and China to explore the common understanding of exploring the urban space seen from a traceur and freerunners perspective. ...

Even if it’s some days ago, I can’t ignore the largest free running jam on earth! On September 26, 2009, over 3,500 traceurs in 37 countries teamed up and called for a world with clean power. In over 217 cities around the globe, professional and amateur traceurs jumped, ran and climbed through the urban landscape and set a new Guinness world record! This great urban acrobatics event, called “One Giant Leap” was organized by environmental action group Sandbag together with pro traceurs from Parkour Generations and the international parkour community. ...

When I think of São Paulo, I have mainly Pixação in my mind. What I didn’t know until I watched this video is, that the urban trend sport Parkour becomes more and more popular in the Brazil Metropolis. “Samparkour” is an almost 7 minutes long short film, which was part of the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival 2009 (LABRFF) and impresses with great pictures and impressions. It reveals the city of São Paulo under the look of Parkour. ...

This is the fourth time, that I took a deep look into the Urban Artcore Flickr group and decided the three urban top photos of the last seven days. With parkour from Philadelphia, graffiti from Sao Paulo and urban art from Rome, the very inspiring shots of today’s selection come from all over the globe! I love them: parkour philadelphia Philadelphia Art Museum, by Showboat Dropface Do art, no war, by Brunno ...

They jump, they climb, they get freaky - Since yesterday, there’s an other amazing urban extreme sports video clip, called “Out of Time”, on the web. Some guys from Russia filmed their Parkour-inspired playground action and made a respectable fifteen minutes video out of it. Their main focus is on some big monkey bars, but they’re also jumping from roof to roof or into the water… ...

For some years, the urban sports Parkour and Freerunning, founded by the the French David Bell and Sebastien Foucan, are more and more trendy sports in the cities around the world. In serveral métropoles an increasingly number of enthusiastics join existing Parkour- and Freerunning-Groups or create their own to train with each other. ...