How to reclaim open public space and create a temporary park in an inexpensive way? Rebar from San Francisco were trying to transform those spaces into urban laboratories. 

An interesting 20-minute video in which the Singaporean Chan Soo Khian is interviewing the architecture veteran Moshe Safdie (Habitat 67)

“Urban Roots America” is a new film by Mark MacInnis and Leila Conners on the transformation of Detroit’s urban farms in vacant areas. The documentary shows how Detroit is increasingly attractive to young people who can live within the city their dream of urban agriculture.

For further information check the website of Urban Roots America

Streetfilms latest production explores  the innovations that earned San Francisco a 2012 recognition from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. 

Earlier this month, UPenn held a screen of the documentary Urbanized, and held a panel discussion with two of the films participants, which can be viewed here on vimeo. Enjoy!

Follow the TEDx speech of Paul Lightfoot which is the CEO of Brightfarms an “Urban and greenhouse farm” business company which had announced that it will build a 100,000 square foot “garden in the sky” on top of a warehouse in New York.

Read a more detailed article here on archdaily.

Mark Raymond speaks on the Victims of the City, and is questioning city governments to let go of their old notions of success and consider the balance of environment, economy, and society to design cities for social change.

Inspiring and beautiful by the street artist JR!

Visit http://www.insideoutproject.net for more info.

Istanbul is a city with a long and eventful history. The project “Yepkpare” was dealing with its 8500 years long history  in the context of the European Cultural Capital 2010. What makes this project so unique is that the story was told in a front projection and was also projected on a very historic place: The Haydarpasa train station, right on the Bosphorus, originally built as a starting point of the Baghdad Railway in Wilhelminian style.

”Yekpare” is a storyteller which narrates the 8500 year story of Istanbul. The story embraces symbols from Pagans to Roman Empire, from Byzantine Empire to Latin Empire, and finally from Ottoman Empire to Istanbul at the present day.”

Further information via http://nerdworking.org/

Being playful in the urban landscape that’s the main idea of MPU (moblie project unit). Further informations you can find via http://mpulabs.com/.