Works like these have given Melbourne an enviable urban art reputation.
Affordable urban art can be found at 83 Club Street, a bar where visitors can buy what they see on the walls as they sip cocktails and eat French-influenced bites such as marinated salmon blinis and roasted beer and Harissa sausage.
How can we write without the old serious publications, make movies without risk-taking Hollywood producers, live without cheap urban housing, discover art without the underground, make a career without the circulation-desk jobs?
This is the UK's largest permanent street art project and the biggest urban arts festival in Europe, attracting the world's leading urban artists to converge and create a series of temporary and permanent street art installations and sculpture, including some of the world's largest scale outdoor paintings.
Dedicated to offering the public "powerful experiences with art and the urban environment, " the fund's other projects have included bringing Jeff Koons's topiary-puppy sculpture to Rockefeller Center and Rob Pruitt's statue of Andy Warhol to Union Square.
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Restaurants like R Bistro with its ever-changing seasonal menu, craft cocktail bar Ball and Biscuit, and the innovative Black Market, which serves beef tongue and burgers, are interspersed with boutiques and art galleries, offering an urban experience that rivals more tourist-heavy metropolitan areas like Los Angeles and Boston.
However in urban centres like New York, historic street art continues to be threatened by gentrification.
In Athens, meanwhile, Oliaros is working to revive a troubled inner-city neighborhood known as Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio (KM), an urban-renewal initiative that involves architecture, art and local activism.
So converting smart city atheists may be a matter of having more good examples of people working together using state-of-the-art technology to manage logistics and other urban tasks more efficiently, saving time and money for everyone.
This project makes use for the first time of high resolution simulations from a state-of-the-art regional atmospheric chemistry model to capture both urban and regional scale air pollution features.
Finally, you can support organizations that work with Free Arts NYC such as Elisa Contemporary Art, Joan Hornig Jewelry, KDP Enterprises and The Urban Zen Foundation.
"It would be a long and very complicated process because of the extraordinary significance of this landmark, " said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society of New York, a nonprofit advocate for historic preservation and urban planning.
The site is part public park, part wildlife sanctuary, part space for installation art -- just one more piece of reclaimed land enriching Berlin's urban life.
Stocked with architectural gems, including Art Deco and Miami Modern buildings, the city wanted to ensure that its parking structures "became urban assets rather than urban albatrosses, " Mr. Cary says.
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