{ "count": 65, "description": "How cities are planned, used and contested.", "jsonFeed": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urbanism/feed.json", "posts": [ { "date": "2026-01-07", "description": "A digital archive of street art \u0026 graffiti (2009-2012) documenting Europe’s urban art scene.", "title": "Lost, Found, and Recompiled: The Return of Urban Art Core", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/return-of-urbanartcore/" }, { "date": "2012-07-26", "description": "ITN Architects created an awesome graffiti architecture building in Melbourne, with a facade incorporating a giant three-dimensional tag!", "title": "Graffiti Architecture in Melbourne", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/graffiti-architecture-in-melbourne/" }, { "date": "2012-07-25", "description": "Berlin is going to get its next urban farming project! The Himmelbeet project transforms an car park into a community garden space...", "title": "Urban Farming: Roof-Top Garden in Berlin", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-farming-roof-top-garden-berlin/" }, { "date": "2012-07-20", "description": "Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk just realized their Berlin Cloud Castle project, an urban intervention examinating incompletion of public space.", "title": "Urban Intervention: Project Cloud Castle", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-intervention-project-cloud-castle/" }, { "date": "2012-07-18", "description": "Clemens Behr and Raby Florence Fofana created a fantastic abstract subway sculpture, objectifying Berlin’s most famous subway line U1! Watch the video now...", "title": "Berlin Subway Sculpture", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/berlin-subway-sculpture/" }, { "date": "2012-07-10", "description": "Garage Art in Berlin - A Berliner art collective is calling for papers to join the garage art competition 2012. The winner gets 1.000 Euro!", "title": "Open Call: Garage Art in Berlin", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/open-call-garage-art-in-berlin/" }, { "date": "2012-06-26", "description": "Sweatshoppe crew developed a technology that allows them to create the illusion that they are painting videos onto walls: Video Painting!", "title": "Video Painting - Painting Videos onto Walls", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/video-painting-painting-videos-walls/" }, { "date": "2012-06-24", "description": "Platoon in Berlin is going to open their new headquarter with a controversial debate discussing questions like: Does graffiti trigger gentrification? or How does creative street culture cause social restructuring?", "title": "Urban Culture Talk: Graffiti equals Gentrification?!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-culture-talk-graffiti-equals-gentrification/" }, { "date": "2012-06-19", "description": "Wanna know the best places in Berlin? Take a look at this great viral guerrilla campaign by students at the Berlin University of the Arts!", "title": "Best Places in Berlin, Posters", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/best-places-in-berlin-posters/" }, { "date": "2012-05-31", "description": "German design collective Urbanscreen recently lighted the sails at famous Sydney Opera House, creating an impressing facade motion effect...", "title": "Urbanscreen Lights Sydney Opera House!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urbanscreen-lights-sydney-opera-house/" }, { "date": "2012-05-29", "description": "The State of New York is hoping to sell its old prisons, what’s a great chance for those craving urban space to spread out. Buy your prison! ", "title": "Urban Redevelopment: Buy Your Prison!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-redevelopment-buy-your-prison/" }, { "date": "2012-05-22", "description": "Pop-up parks are temporary green urban interventions. In Chicago, Joe Baldwin installed such a 280 square meters pop-up park for a few hours!", "title": "Urban Gardening: Pop-Up Park Chicago", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/" }, { "date": "2012-05-16", "description": "Tetris Hack: 153 windows, 153 pixels - the front of the MIT’s Green Building lit up in a colorful display of the popular puzzler Tetris!", "title": "Tetris Hack: Amazing 90 Meters Tetris Game!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/amazing-90-meters-tetris-game/" }, { "date": "2012-05-08", "description": "The Silent World urban photo-series by Lucie and Simon show empty places in deserted cities and make us understand What makes a city a city!", "title": "Deserted Cities: Where Time Stands Still", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/deserted-cities-where-time-stands-still/" }, { "date": "2012-05-05", "description": "Well-known photographer Stephen Wilkes documents locations in New York City during day and night on a single photograph: The Day to Night series...", "title": "Stephen Wilkes’ Urban Photography: Day \u0026 Night on a Single Photo!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/day-to-night-urban-photography-stephen-wilkes/" }, { "date": "2012-05-04", "description": "Moscow is beautiful, at least in this amazing time-lapse video by Belarusian photographer and film-maker zweizwei who portrait the Russian city!", "title": "Time-lapsed Moscow City Portrait", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/time-lapsed-moscow-city-portrait/" }, { "date": "2012-05-02", "description": "The Shard tower in London is just impressing. This timelapse shows the final weeks of construction of The Shard tower in London Bridge!", "title": "The Shard: A Timelapse Study", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/the-shard-timelapse-study/" }, { "date": "2012-04-18", "description": "", "title": "Kulturpark Berlin: Re-open an Abandoned Amusement Park", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/kulturpark-berlin-re-open-abandoned-amusement-park/" }, { "date": "2012-04-17", "description": "The world’s first real-time architecture competition 72 Hour Urban Action is coming to Stuttgart this July, modifying the city in a big contest. Apply now!", "title": "Urbanism: 72 Hour Urban Action", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urbanism-72-hour-urban-action/" }, { "date": "2012-04-12", "description": "TNT placed a red push button on a square of an Flemish town and a sign with the text \"Push to add drama\" to invite people to use the button. An then they waited...", "title": "Drama-Button Street Intervention ", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/drama-button-street-intervention/" }, { "date": "2012-03-23", "description": "A passion for making urban design more exciting, engaging and accessible to the public is the idea behind the urbanism film festival UR{BNE}.", "title": "Urban Design \u0026 Architecture Film Festival", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-design-architecture-film-festival/" }, { "date": "2012-03-20", "description": "Paris-based photographers Romain Alary and Antoine Levi created a pinhole camera apartment based on the principle of the Camera Obscura!", "title": "Urban Pinhole Camera Apartment", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-pinhole-camera-apartment/" }, { "date": "2012-02-13", "description": "ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. In Berlin, the anti ACTA protest includes thousands of people, including several Guy Fawkes...", "title": "Anti ACTA - Guy Fawkes in Berlin", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/anti-acta-guy-fawkes-in-berlin/" }, { "date": "2012-02-02", "description": "Redbirds, those famous cinnabar red NYC subway cars, have been buried about 80 feet underwater off the US east coast to help creating the artificial Redbirds Reef...", "title": "NYC Subway - Redbirds Underwater", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/nyc-subway-redbirds-underwater/" }, { "date": "2012-01-20", "description": "The abandoned swimming pool Piscine Molitor in Paris, which was inaugurated by famous swimmer and Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller, will be destroyed this year. This is a tribute to the olympic champ!", "title": "Tarzan’s Giant Swimming Pool", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/tarzan-swimming-pool/" }, { "date": "2012-01-05", "description": "Urbanism is a wide field combing urban design, city culture, technology, and social approaches. The idea is to make urban landscapes a better place to live and here are the trends for 2012...", "title": "Urbanism \u0026 City Culture Trends 2012", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urbanism-trends-2012/" }, { "date": "2011-09-08", "description": "Berlin Dynamic by Matthias Makarinus is one of the best city portraits I’ve ever watched! Including about 50.000 single photos, this stop motion video presents some great impressions from the streets of Berlin...", "title": "Berlin Dynamic - City Portrait", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/berlin-dynamic-city-portrait/" }, { "date": "2011-08-16", "description": "Recently the first augmented reality iPhone app for virtually tagging the street was released! The app called Street Tag allows you to spray-paint walls in real time without fearing arrest and some more...", "title": "Augmented Reality Tagging - iPhone App", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/augmented-reality-tagging-iphone-app/" }, { "date": "2011-07-17", "description": "This year’s Spree-Parade was a great success - About 3,000 demonstrating, dancing and raving people protested against gentrification in general and specifically Berlin’s largest property investment project Mediaspree!", "title": "Spree Parade Against Mediaspree", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/spree-parade-against-mediaspree/" }, { "date": "2011-06-27", "description": "The famous urban magazine Spacemag asks you to send in your ideas, thoughts, texts, images or photos for the upcoming fourth issue about Ego-Urbanism. Selected submissions will be featured in the next mag, so make sure to participate!", "title": "Ego–Urbanism Magazine, Call for Papers!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/ego-urbanism-magazine/" }, { "date": "2011-02-04", "description": "For about 20 years, the alternative housing project “Liebig14” was a gravitation field for left-winged politics, street art and other creative ideas. Now it was evicted - this are my impressions...", "title": "Liebig14 - Berlin Squat Eviction", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/liebig14-berlin-squat-eviction/" }, { "date": "2010-08-24", "description": "I love tagged walls, I love colorful houses and streets and I like creative city portraits like this tilt-shift video of Berlin. Take a look at the sexiest city worldwide from unusual perspectives...", "title": "Berlin in Tilt-Shift", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/berlin-tilt-shift/" }, { "date": "2010-07-19", "description": "Ready, steady, go - Urban Artcore’s international Urban Art Photo Contest goes into the next round! Do you have a winning shot? Join the competition!", "title": "Urban Art Photo Contest", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-art-photo-contest/" }, { "date": "2010-07-15", "description": "This year’s Urban Art Photo Contest will start next Monday, July 19th, 2010. If you have a winning shot of street art or graffiti, join the competition tohave a chance to win one of our great prize-packages! ", "title": "Urban Art Photo Contest Update", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-art-photo-contest-update/" }, { "date": "2010-06-22", "description": "New York City is a really beautiful urban area and Andre Merilo caught that amazing impressions when he visited the Big Apple this April. Watch New York City in high-definition...", "title": "New York City in HD", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/new-york-city-in-hd/" }, { "date": "2010-06-07", "description": "A broad alliance of left-winged people demonstrated last Saturday against the Mediaspree investors group and its plans to build high office blocks and luxury apartments on former free spaces...", "title": "Anti-Mediaspree Protests - Photos", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/anti-mediaspree-protest/" }, { "date": "2010-05-23", "description": "Today, the procession of this year’s Carnival of Cultures happened in Berlin! A huge number of people join the street parade and had a great multicultural party! I took some photos...", "title": "Carnival of Cultures Berlin - Photo Report", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/carnival-of-cultures-berlin-photo-report/" }, { "date": "2010-03-29", "description": "This August, an interesting conference will take place in Atlanta: “Living Walls, The City Speaks”! Therefore they are calling for street artists to submit posters...", "title": "Urbanism: Living Walls in Atlanta?", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/living-walls-conference-the-city-speaks/" }, { "date": "2010-03-28", "description": "The “New York City Polaroid Project” is a very special photo documentary of New York’s streets by Andrew Faris. A must for all street photographers and Polaroid nerds...", "title": "New York City Polaroid Project", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/new-york-city-polaroid-project/" }, { "date": "2010-03-03", "description": "“The Sandpit” is a great tilt-shift video, which shows miniature impressions of the urban street life in New York. A must to see for all New York or photography fans...", "title": "Urban Tilt-Shift: Portraying New York", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/new-york-urban-tilt-shift/" }, { "date": "2010-02-28", "description": "Today I spotted a relative new and especially nice photoblog about typography in New York! There are some really interesting shots over there...", "title": "New York Typography", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/new-york-typography/" }, { "date": "2010-02-23", "description": "This Friday, the second Spacemag issue, called “Gaffa-Urbanism”, will be published at the Art Lawyer Gallery in Hamburg. I was able to cast an first eye at the new edition...", "title": "Release: Gaffa Urbanism Magazine", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/gaffa-urbanism-magazine-release/" }, { "date": "2010-02-02", "description": "Vancouver has its very own atmosphere. The small streets, thefog, the lights, the water and the mountains - Everything fits to each other! Watch that time-lapse...", "title": "Beautiful Vancouver Time Lapse", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/vancouver-time-lapse/" }, { "date": "2010-01-24", "description": "Paris is one of the most romantic cities around the globe. These time-lapse videos show some of the most famous places there. Take a look and be impressed!", "title": "City Portrait: Paris Time-Lapse", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/paris-urban-time-lapse/" }, { "date": "2010-01-24", "description": "Post-war modern buildings look like futuristic castles. German photographer D. S. Schaub created a nice photo-documentation about them in the last years...", "title": "Post-War Modernity: Architecture Photography", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/post-war-modernity-architecture/" }, { "date": "2010-01-22", "description": "“The Urban Guide for Alternate Use” by Scott Burnham is an open source city-specific field guide for alternate uses for existing urban infrastructure. ", "title": "Urban Hacks: The Urban Guide for Alternate Use", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-hacks-the-urban-guide-for-alternate-use/" }, { "date": "2010-01-07", "description": "“Snow in Berlin” is a very nice video by PictureReport about winter in Berlin. It shows great urban winter impressions and whets appetite of more frosty images...", "title": "Snow in Berlin - Urban Winter Impressions", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/snow-berlin-urban-winter-impressions/" }, { "date": "2009-12-11", "description": "Subway Music - It’s an urban phenomenon! The great video “Live Underground” presents in a fantastic way some very talented subway musicians from New York...", "title": "Live Underground - Urban Music", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/live-underground-urban-music/" }, { "date": "2009-12-09", "description": "Urban Abstract is a great piece of digital art! Done by a Helsinki - Tokyo collaboration, the video gives clear, minimalistic and abstract impressions of the urban space...", "title": "Urban Abstract", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-abstract/" }, { "date": "2009-11-26", "description": "“Tokyo \u0026 Yokohama - A High Speed Journey” is an amazing time lapse video, which shows the two Japanese metropolises by night. If you like pure urbanity, take a look...", "title": "Tokyo \u0026 Yokohama by Night", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/tokyo-yokohama-by-night/" }, { "date": "2009-11-11", "description": "The “Book of Urbanism” is a very interesting project. It’s collecting artistic and innovative ideas for the urban public space! The central question is how public spaces will looks like in future?", "title": "Book of Urbanism", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/book-of-urbanism/" }, { "date": "2009-10-15", "description": "Light art and facade projections are in vogue this year. This one is another great example of what artists can do with modern technologies in an urban context...", "title": "Audiovisual Facade Projection", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/audiovisual-facade-projection/" }, { "date": "2009-10-04", "description": "Giants in Berlin is a giant’s tale, narrated by the legendary French street theatre company Royal de Luxe. It’s an open-air theatre to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall!", "title": "Giants in Berlin", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/giants-in-berlin/" }, { "date": "2009-10-01", "description": "Improvisation, unusual, under the hand - The Spacemag calls you up to submit contributions of any form, which capture the “Gaffa-Urbanism”! More info...", "title": "Spacemag #2 - “Gaffa-Urbanism”", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/spacemag-2-gaffa-urbanismus/" }, { "date": "2009-09-23", "description": "“Street Photography” is an interesting documentary film by editorial photographer Chris Weeks about taking photos in the public, urban space. You must watch it!", "title": "Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/street-photography-documenting-the-human-condition/" }, { "date": "2009-09-22", "description": "Online TV channel Babelgum, which is dedicated to art and urban culture, recently launched the Metropolis Art Prize. You can win cash and get your work displayed in Times Square...", "title": "Metropolis Art Prize - Win $5,000", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/metropolis-art-prize-win-5000/" }, { "date": "2009-09-06", "description": "This cookbook combines modern street cookery with the creativity of urban art. King Adz traveled around the globe seeking recipes and interviewing several street artist...", "title": "The Urban Cookbook", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/the-urban-cookbook/" }, { "date": "2009-09-06", "description": "There are a lot of great urban time lapse video clips on the web, which impress with innovative perspectives, motives or techniques. This is one of them...", "title": "Urban Morphing", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-morphing/" }, { "date": "2009-09-05", "description": "24h Berlin is 24 hours urban real life! A year ago, about 80 camera teams filmed the modern metropolis and its citizen. Take a look on this innovative documentation...", "title": "24h Berlin", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/24h-berlin/" }, { "date": "2009-08-30", "description": "Hong Kong is the next part of the urban city portrait series by Hamburg based photographer and filmmaker Max Moos. His time lapse video clips give an insight into the street life of megacities worldwide!", "title": "Hongkong Time Lapse", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/hongkong-time-lapse/" }, { "date": "2009-08-25", "description": "Photographer and filmmaker Max Moose made some really nice lime lapse videos with impressions from the streets of New York and Istanbul! So if you’re interested in different urban cultures, take a look!", "title": "New York \u0026 Istanbul City Portrait", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/new-york-istanbul-city-portrait/" }, { "date": "2009-08-21", "description": "Do you know the Phillips Exeter Academy Library, designed by architect Louis Kahn? If not, take a look at this short film to understand, why it is a masterwork of architecture!", "title": "Shapes \u0026 Colors - The Exeter Academy Library", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/shapes-colors-kahn-exeter-academy-library/" }, { "date": "2009-08-18", "description": "“Cart”, by Jesse Rosten, is a film about the live of shopping carts. Do they have feelings or emotions? Are you even noticed the many shopping carts cruising through the cities? Or do you ever wonder how abandoned shopping carts end up? Take a look!", "title": "The Shopping Cart Film", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/cart-a-film-by-jesse-rosten/" }, { "date": "2009-08-17", "description": "Flea markets are an indispensable element of urban landscape! A day on one of this tiny, little markets is inspiring as well as interesting. The best is to watch other people... 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