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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 ...