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In the mid-1900s, Dutch citizens of Delft were sick of cars driving too fast down their narrow residential streets. The city was slow to respond, so residents took matters into their own hands. G...

https://weburbanist.com/2019/12/09/living-city-streets-the-global-drive-to-reclaim-routes-for-cyclists-pedestrians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-city-streets-the-global-drive-to-reclaim-routes-for-cyclists-pedestrians

The whole world is watching Hong Kong, where a battle is playing out in the streets between authorities and citizens protesting China’s encroachment on their independence. It started in June in...

https://weburbanist.com/2019/11/18/creative-engineering-at-the-protests-in-hong-kong/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creative-engineering-at-the-protests-in-hong-kong

The board of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District recently voted unanimously to approve a $76 million funding plan for installation of steel-cable nets 20 feet beneath the ...

https://weburbanist.com/2019/11/05/how-a-safety-net-spawned-the-golden-gate-bridges-halfway-to-hell-club/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-a-safety-net-spawned-the-golden-gate-bridges-halfway-to-hell-club

Located in Kyoto, Japan, the Ukiyoe Small Museum has extremely flexible hours, at least for its owner/operator, artist Ichimura Mamoru, whose sign explains: “When I’ve had enough the store i...

https://weburbanist.com/2019/10/08/ukiyoe-small-museum-open-when-i-wake-up-and-close-when-i-must-go-to-sleep/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukiyoe-small-museum-open-when-i-wake-up-and-close-when-i-must-go-to-sleep

Removed from their context, the strange concrete monuments dotting the landscape of the former Yugoslavia can seem abstract, inscrutable, even “alien.” Called “Spomeniks” after the Serbo-...

https://weburbanist.com/2019/06/17/spomeniks-the-antifascist-history-behind-abstract-yugoslav-monuments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spomeniks-the-antifascist-history-behind-abstract-yugoslav-monuments