Urban Details

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This community is dedicated to interesting city planning decisions and details. Post anything you come across around cities that you find interesting or endearing. Here are a few examples: **Street furniture**, like something especially modern or beautiful, unusually comfortable or unique **City lighting**, like streetlights, facade or bollard lights, etc. **City infrastructure**, like bike or pedestrian paths, green tram ways, etc. **Public spaces**, such as chillout zones, interesting parks, unusual gear at children's playgrounds, etc. **Easter eggs**, like tiny statues or hidden details **Successful accessibility projects**, like useful sidewalk ramps or city map totems See stickied post for more examples

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I love this. The turntable is not a new invention but it's a clever reintroduction for city busses.

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This photo shows the scale of the art even better:

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Follow this link. It leads to a random page on Atlas Obscura — a website dedicated to collecting unusual places around the world. Tell us what you landed on and share a few thoughts about that subject. You can reroll a few times since not all the results might fit the theme of the community.

Also, I’m thinking this might make a fun weekly tradition to have an interesting discussion. What do you think about that?

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They're intended to provoke thought about the impact and enormity of past events and to serve as a powerful reminder

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Hook Turns | Right Turn (www.onlymelbourne.com.au)
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Melbourne is the only city in the world that has a Hook Turn.A Hook Turn enables a driver to make a right turn in selected intersections.

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Tenji Blocks (www.reliance-foundry.com)
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Learn about tenji blocks, used to help guide and warn those with visual impairment.

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Each one is custom made for a city.

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A series of small sculptures of Lemmings from an amazing 90s video game interacting with their environment in Dundee, Scotland

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Hi everyone. This is a place to notice and celebrate stuff that cities do right. Here, you can post anything from your own photos of some interesting findings around the world to articles discussing future urbanism projects.

I’ve compiled a list of some examples of the content I think fits in this community, and I’m open to your suggestions and ideas on how we can improve the ruleset going forward.

Urban Infrastructure
Bike lanes, pedestrian paths, green tram ways, and all other useful or innovative urban development
Examples: Amsterdam bike infrastructure, Barcelona superblocks or Reykjavik heated sidewalks

Public Spaces
Unique chillout zones, interesting parks, unusual equipment at children's playgrounds or public space design in general
Examples: Stockholm metro, Superkilen Park Copenhagen, Archimedes screw playground thing

City Lighting
Anything from streetlights or bollard lights to facade lighting setups that bring something unique to city nights
Examples: An article about lighting, a random Pinterest board

Street Furniture
Unique or interesting outdoor furniture pieces found in public spaces, be they simply modern, beautiful, or unusually comfortable
Examples: Random related Pinterest board

City Easter Eggs
Small or hidden details in the city, like tiny statues or architectural elements that might be easily missed
Examples: Pac-Man cutouts, Lemmings statues

Successful Accessibility Projects
Effective solutions for accessibility, such as sidewalk ramps, urban navigation totems, braille-annotated 3D representations of various POIs, tactile paths, etc.
Examples: Tactile Last Supper, wayfinding totems

Architectural Details
Special elements in building design, be they part of historic architecture or something totally modern. So pictures of anything from the gothic architecture to Zaha Hadid’s futurism work.

Urban Art and Murals
Vibrant and unique expressions of street art, from large murals to small artistic details
Examples: Space Invader graffiti, city murals

Let see some urban goodness!

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