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Digital Urban – The Book

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Apologies for the lack of posts today, been beavering away on a book based around the tutorials and concepts developed on the blog. At the moment details are sketchy but it’s looking like a glossy coffee table type publication with simple step by step guides to doing all the things you see on digital urban.

It should be timed to be out in time for a forthcoming conference in February with a draft complete by early January – thus our lack of posts today.

At the moment its going to be published by our department (CASA) through a self publishing route as we do like the glossy nature of Blurb etc. Although nothing is set in stone, the important point is high quality digital printing so if anyone is reading this who is a publisher or a printer do get in touch…

We will get some more blog posts out soon as we can and the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces book continues apace, we just need your images 🙂

Worlds Worst Urban Spaces: Manchester

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Andreas Baeing has uploaded some stunningly grim images of his local urban environment to our Flick Pool the ‘Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces’ for the forthcoming reader contributed book.

Pictured above right is is an example of extreme CCTVing plus some barb-wiring, located in East Manchester. Andreas notes that living in England means, you are recorded on some CCTV system all the time. Which we have to say is true, the average person in the UK is recorded on CCTV 300 times a day.

Continuing Andreas’s tour is, in his own words, a rather strange urban structure… It is the ventilation building for the Wallassey tunnel across the Mersey in North Liverpool. It is horrible and fascinating at the same time, somehow a reminder of early science fiction movies

And our final pick of Andreas’s images from the pool is a vacant tower block in East Manchester. One can see that some of the rooms of been burnt out, he assumes by arson attacks.


If you would like to contribute it is easy, simply go out into your local urban environment and photograph anything that you think is an example of poor architecture, urban design or use of space. It could be a photograph of a run down phonebox or a disused building, perhaps a concrete monstrosity from the 1970’s or anything that you think fits.

Once you have your photograph, at as high a resolution as possible, you can simply upload it to our newly created group on Flickr, Worlds Worst Urban Spaces and Place including a description of between 100 and 250 words.

Its as simple as that, see our previous post for full details on the book and how to take part.

A full archive is kept at the Worlds Worst Urban Spaces and Places blog (note this will take shape over the coming weeks as content is sent in via Flickr)

Architectural Visualisation: 1st and Main

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The architectural flythrough embeded below was created by Newlands & Company (NC3D) for Shorenstein Properties and GBD Architects project, “1st & Main”:

This Class-A office and retail space is currently under construction in Portland, Oregon. The animation highlights many of 1st & Main’s interior and exterior features and views, and is set in our Portland City Model to provide detailed, realistic context.

NC3D is a 3D visualization consulting firm specializing in transportation, architecture and urban design projects. We will be featuring their new ‘Transportation Reel’ in our demo reels section in a follow up post.

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