Jane Jacobs: Neighbourhoods in Action is a video produced by Active Living Network (a project of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) featuring an interview with the American urban visionary Jane Jacobs (via Jane’s Walk Pheonix the Jane’s Walks blogspot). Jane’s Walk is a grassroots initiative that seeks to put people and communities at the heart [...]

Metropolis by Rob Carter – Last 3 minutes from Rob Carter on Vimeo. Above is the last 3 minutes of Metropolis a stop-motion animation movie by Rob Carter made from images printed on paper. In the time-lapse video Carter physically manipulates aerial still images of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina (both real and fictional) [...]

Street With A View, 2008, image taken from CCCS, Florence, Courtesy Ben Kinsley & Robin Hewlett ©Google, Inc. Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World If you visit the Street View section of Google Maps and type in “Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh” you’re in for a big surprise, because who would have guessed that this one-way [...]

In a keynote speech delivered at the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit, Michigan urban innovator Charles Landry, author of The Creative City and The Art of City Making, shares his knowledge on the value of creativity in city making. Part I: The art of city making is conviviality Share this:Facebook

Above is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary from East Bay Pictures: Edible City which unfolds the story of the people who, in response to the global food crisis, have initiated a grassroots movement of growing a local and sustainable food system in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Edible City is currently in production [...]