City structure

experimenting with a connection between a leaf and a city. structure, system, function, aesthetics.

The concept of ‘The City’ and the medium of photography are intimately linked within contemporary art. The aim of my practice is to explore how drawing can become a component in that partnership. Through the use of pen and ink, I respond to the diverse m…

NYC By Laurie Rollitt.

German street artist EVOL transforms banal urban surfaces into miniature lifelike buildings. He is like an urban planner, but unlike the others, he creates a city within the city.The artist uses complicated stencils to quickly transform powerboxes, and other worn urban surfaces into miniature apartment buildings or other structures.

orient_city

“New Yorkers go about unaware of what is happening just beneath their feet: Power pulses, information flies, and steam flows. The city’s infrastructure starts just below street level, but it …

At a glance, the overall pattern formed by these first 25 polar histograms (or: rose diagrams) is clear: orthogonal grids, mostly aligned with cardinal directions in orientation, dominate American cities. There are exceptions, but most streets run north, south, east and west. Geoff Boeing, an assistant professor of urban informatics at Northeastern University, recently moved

Two unlikely mercenaries trying to survive one mission at a time