Urban Subversion
@UrbanSubversion
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Passionate about activites that broaden our usage of urban functionality. aka @olimould
The subversive city
Joined August 2009
A local artist in Berlin has put up fake real estate advertisements to prank international investors: https://t.co/lWsLSdAIUW
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The Mosaic man of Southampton https://t.co/YP4ct48eqF
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We'll be the judge of that.... https://t.co/pgJi3QZjl6
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We may only be a few months away from 2020, yet apparently subterranean abandonment is still rife for aesthetic voyeurism apparently
theguardian.com
London has been shaped by its railways, ever since the Metropolitan opened as the world’s first underground line in 1863. As the network grew, old stations, tunnels, entrances, passageways and shafts...
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How many will/have urbexers been to? Does anyone actually care anymore?
theguardian.com
Paul Talling photographs the land of long-forgotten tube stations, burnt-out mansions and gently decaying factories
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A very British subversion - abandoned tea rooms of the UK
weburbanist.com
Tea time waits for no one and the former Tea Rooms on London’s Museum Street is no exception, its Art Deco facade gracefully decaying as the years go by.
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Free climbing the Shard and he doesn't even get arrested? https://t.co/I7N5e5UewI
theguardian.com
Man is said to have ascended without ropes and was spoken to by police afterwards
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More urban protest stickers from @faxsly, this time in Berlin
turbulentisles.com
A Fridays for Future demonstration in the German Bundestag in Berlin in March 2019 (Photo: Hannah Awcock). I recently visited Berlin at a time when climate change and environmental protection were …
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Remembering and memorialising the queer radicality of the Stonewall riots in New York City
newrepublic.com
With monuments to a pair of trans activists instrumental in the 1969 uprising, New York City takes an important step toward inclusion.
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It’s all about perspective: the hidden city in the glass of skyscrapers.
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““In the beginning, there was no contact with the city’s decision-makers” - the DIY skate park that revitalised a city.
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Guerrilla gardening without the gentrifying overtones? Tactical urbanism as it should be.
It’s not the Garden Bridge @BorisJohnson wanted.... but hundreds of climate change activists are trying to turn Waterloo Bridge into a garden, after seizing it and blocking traffic.
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