Here’s a selection of 5 TEDx video talks on cities which was recently published on Yuri Artibise‘s blog Yurbanism. For viewers who are passionate about cities and their futures this selection covers a broad range of relevant topics concerning contemporary cities and urbanism delivered by international experts. Dan Burden on walkability and livability Gil Penalosa [...]

FIREBALL establishes a coordination mechanism through which a network of Smart Cities across Europe engages in long term collaboration for adopting User Driven Open Innovation to explore the opportunities of the Future Internet. The coordination process will be grounded in exchange, dialogue and learning between Smart Cities, who are considered as key demand-side drivers of [...]

‘Bundled, Buried and Behind Closed Doors’ is a short documentary by filmmaker Ben Mendelson which offers viewers a glimpse inside one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of internet connectivity: 60 Hudson Street, New York. Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors from Ben Mendelsohn on Vimeo. Mendelson’s film not only shows us how the internet [...]

posted by Marcia Caines Whitworth Park Manchester, spring 2010 – university students, museum-goers, local low-income residents, junkies, pushers and/or the director of some museum in Liverpool all had the unique opportunity to take a ride on a rather dated and sinister-looking radioactive fairground attraction which appeared in the park overnight: ‘The Liquidator’. images Tod Seelie [...]

Painting Reality is the work of Dutch performance artist IEPE and an anonymous crew who on April 25 2010 ‘dumped’ 500 cans of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint onto the asphalt of the busy junction, Rosenthaler Platz, in Berlin and let passing cars do the rest. The result a giant Pollock-esque painting of coloured – red, yellow, [...]