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This Big City is an award winning online publication sharing ideas for sustainable cities.

Our Tumblr is all about the short form and is curated from London and Taipei.

“The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program began in 1984 as part of a campaign to eradicate graffiti citywide. Since then, over 3,000 murals have been created; each has become a distinctive part of the city’s landscape. In Philadelphia, mural making provides a unique opportunity for community engagement. It fosters relationships among community members, schools, grassroots organizations, city agencies, and philanthropists.”

Alex Riemondy on Philadelphia’s streetscape.

“As a result of Hamburg’s culture-led growth strategy, many artists and creative professionals felt instrumentalised by the development policies. They have published a ‘Not in our Name’ manifesto to protest against the ‘Hamburg Brand’, as they were not willing to contribute to the creative city image, while paying the price of being displaced.”

Silvie Jacobi on how development in Hamburg is negatively impacting the very people who enabled it to happen.

Competition time! Win Loads of Moleskine Goodies

If you’re anything like us, you’re never too far from your Moleskine notebook. And if you haven’t reached that level of addiction yet, now’s a great time to get going as we’re running a competition with the guys at Moleskine to win €50 (that’s around $65) of vouchers to spend in the Moleskine Online Store.

The vouchers are in Euros but they can be spent in any Moleskine Online Store so those of you in the UK and North America are totally welcome to get involved! We’ll draw a winner at random on December 20th.

To enter the competition simply give this box a click, watch the video and answer one easy question about it…

…what colour is the ukelele?

And if you give us your answer AND reblog this post, we’ll enter you twice!

“Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

Banksy On Advertising  

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“Dubai is a city that belies any traditional framework of urbanity. It’s gargantuan real estate developments coupled with its often criticised insouciance of community and culture make it a city that will struggle to be considered a creative hub. With a highly transient population that has a lack of engagement with the city, Dubai has had to formulate an urban creative buzz that has a qualitatively different ethos to that of other world cities. Yes it is manufactured, manicured and manipulated – but the geography of creativity is irrevocably Dubai.”

Oli Mould on Dubai’s unique creative communities