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menu:people- community- governance- arts and cultureplanning- placemaking- urban scale- buildings- energy and servicestransport- public transport- bikes- cars and roadsdigital- social media and web 2.0- data and infrastructureregions- uk- europe- usa and canada- latin america- africa and the middle east- asia and the pacificabout. heroes of my city: the afghan art collective using street art to highlight social problems. kabir mokamel, a graphic designer who spent part of his life in australia, returned to kabul with the intention of cultivating a return to the pre-conflict values he remembers before fleeing war. read more can a property developer make a good president? until recently this was a hypothetical question. read more. trash fantastic: learning from cities across the globe to create the best trash can. how to design the perfect trash can? cities across the globe have different ideas. read more. imitate to innovate: vitoria-gasteiz shows how cities can address 21st century challenges. the spanish city of vitoria-gasteiz has recently transformed itself from a congested and car-dominated city into one of the most pedestrian and bicycle-friendly places in europe. it didn’t achieve this by going at it alone. its key to success was learning from the world bike forum 2015 (wbf4) took place in the city of medellín, colombia, between 26th february and 1st march. read more. with gas prices down, federal transit funding in the us is still just as important. the jaw-dropping fall in oil prices over the past few months has many experts scratching their heads as to what happened. read more thats over 20,000 a second! while many of these are likely to be selfies, there must be many millions of photos of everyday streets and the urban homesteader is a unique start-up project that teaches people how to turn their small urban space into a modern homestead. read more mapmyvisa intends to understand from immigrants how they feel in their cities in relation to their legal situation. can you help? read more