New York City is making life easier for bikers and pedestrians.

In “Immaterials: The ghost in the field”, a film by Jack Schulze of BERG and Timo Arnall of the Touch project, they visually map out the invisible fields produced by RFID readers to better understand the technology

The City Dark is an upcoming film that looks at light pollution, and the disappearance of the nighttime.

Carlo Ratti, from the SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT has initiated a project to track where trash goes when we throw it “away”.

The Londonist checks in with Richard Reynolds, the man credited with planting the seeds for the guerrilla gardening movement, during a recent tour of some of his handiwork that had been arranged by the Museum of London.

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There’s been plenty written on the subject of converting urban space into farmland, from rooftops and abandoned lots to the empty beds of pickup trucks, but this idea always revolves around growing various varieties of vegetables and rarely strays into the realms of animal husbandry. Sure there’s the recent emergence of secret communities of city beekeepers and the age old tradition of rooftop pigeon coops, but now it appears even the humble chicken is getting its due.
A new documentary called ” Mad City Chickens” takes an informative (and often whimsical) look into the increasingly common [...]

With the intention of stimulating discussion and debate on how digital networks are transforming our notion of public and private space, the recent Radiator Festival featured numerous projects challenging the dominant forces at work in urban environment and exploring the new territories opened up by hybrid spaces.
One of our favorite projects came from Köbberling&Kaltwasser, who meticulously mapped out all of the spaces within Nottingham city that escape the gaze of CCTV cameras.  In these ‘blind spots,’ they built small wooden structures from found materials and made them available for anyone to step into at any time for “un-determined acts.”
The German [...]

Cities can be places of great creative excitement and inspiration, but as anyone who spends a lot of time there can tell you, the urban landscape can be draining as well. Recent research has shown that all the hectic man-made activity occurring on the average city street can lead to a dramatic kind of mental fatigue. The brain, only able to handle a certain number of processes and inputs at any one time ends up using much of its processing power just drowning out all the irrelevant stimuli. It’s been discovered however, that natural setting do not have the same [...]