Photographs

A performer holding numerous instruments plays for a crowd in the New York Subway.

Friday Eye Candy: The Theatricality of the Subway

A new book of photography amplifies what was already there.

September 17, 2021 - The Washington Post

2010s

New Decade Eye Candy: The Decade in Photographs

National Geographic shared a list of 15 of its best images captured during the 2010s.

January 1, 2020 - National Geographic

Shanghai

Friday Eye Candy: 195 Gigapixels of Urban Glory

An incredibly detailed bird's eye view of Shanghai.

January 25, 2019 - Dezeen

Friday Eye Candy: 'Time-Lapse Mining' Reveals a Changing Planet

Someone's done the hard work of finding, sorting, and stitching together millions of photos from the Internet to create animated portraits of the evolution of places.

May 22, 2015 - The Verge

Friday Eye Candy: 2014's Best Architectural Photography

The 2014 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards were presented at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore recently.

October 10, 2014 - Dezeen

New Series: In the Urban World, Juxtapositions Matter

In an ongoing series, Urbanism Without Effort author Chuck Wolfe argues the importance of the overlaps, overlays and convergence points that define city life, and emphasizes the importance of reading and interpreting their everyday expression.

January 16, 2014 - myurbanist

Using Instagram as a Planning Tool

Los Angeles County Planner Clement Lau describes how Instagram, the increasingly popular photo-sharing social media app., has become a valuable addition to his quiver of planning tools.

February 13, 2013 - UrbDeZine.com

See the New WTC Views, 80 Floors Up

This Architizer blog post features breathtaking photos from the WTC Progress Twitter account.

February 7, 2012 - Architizer

Most Photographed Cities

Cornell computer scientists used a supercomputer to analyze nearly 35 million Flickr photographs and determine which cities and landmarks were the most photographed. New York, London and San Francisco come out on top.

March 26, 2010 - Cornell

The Town That Lives Online Only

Elgin Park is a small city that doesn't exist. But online, through a series of photographs created from tiny models in the house of one Massachusetts man, the time-frozen industrial town of the mid-'60s has come to life.

March 15, 2010 - The New York Times

Collage of the Past and Present

Through a photo collage of historical and current pictures, artist Alden Cudanin documents the changes that have happened in Toronto Since the early 1900s.

March 7, 2010 - Spacing Toronto

The Discarded Landscape of Car Culture

Empty swimming pools and deserted roadside motels feature prominently in No Lifeguard on Duty, a new book of photographs.

May 28, 2009 - GOOD Magazine

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