Railway Underpass Transformed into a Community Play Space
An underpass in Ammerud, Norway has been transformed from a dreaded space into a community play area.Continue Reading
Reprogramming The City (of Culture) in Timisoara, Romania
RTC went to Timisoara to get the city to think in new ways as it prepares to be a City of Culture. Continue Reading
Repurposing Street Light Poles Into EV Charging Infrastructure
SimpleSocket enables any street light to be converted into an electric vehicle charging station. Continue Reading
Repurposing Shipping Infrastructure Into a Public Sauna
Raumlaborberlin has transformed a piece of shipping infrastructure into a public sauna.Continue Reading
Repurposing Reykjavík’s Geothermal Water Tanks
Reykjavík has turned a piece of functional urban infrastructure into a cultural icon in the city by repurposing geothermal waterContinue Reading
Hydroponic Food from a Repurposed Billboard: Air Orchard
Along a roadside near Lima, Peru, hydroponic food can be found in an unlikely location: at the base of aContinue Reading
Using an Airport Terminal as Urban Rooftop Farm
JetBlue’s T5 farm is a 24,000 square-foot rooftop farm at the Departures level of JFK.Continue Reading
Growing Underground: Urban Food in Abandoned Subway Tunnels
London Underground sometimes uses the phrase “Moving London” as a slogan to describe the service it provides for the city.Continue Reading
Speculative New Use of Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. and “This Could Be…” Thinking
One of the key catalysts for real resourceful change in cities is when someone looks at an existing asset withContinue Reading
Green New Deal: Creating Next Generation Urban Infrastructure by Repurposing It for New Use
By only repairing urban infrastructure, we are missing an opportunity to repurpose it for new use, making cities more resilient and livable using by using the assets already in place.Continue Reading