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Putting People First – Participatory Urban Planning
In this introductory text on participatory urban planning, I explain the importance of this approach and the different methods there ...
Street Art Series: Government Art in Tirana
This is the story of how Tirana's mayor managed the revive the city by government-issued "colour intervention" ...
The City We Need – World Urban Campaign
The World Urban Campaign is an online and offline platform and think tank to collect ideas for the cities of ...
Street Art Series: Painting Rio de Janeiro
In this third part of the street art series I present the favela painting project and there is a video ...
Street Art Series: I Wish This Was…
These are two inspirational and truly participatory street art projects by artist Candy Chang ...
The Potentials of Street Art
I came across many great street art projects and actually decided to make a series out of it. This introductory ...