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#35. Parking Lot Grows Basketball Hoop

Part of a basketball court drawn on the pavement of a new public housing complex in Amsterdam.

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#36. Newspaper Protests Climbers Who Protest

The horizontal ceramic rods which veil the recently completed New York Times Building provided an ideal opportunity for urban climbers to get media attention for their causes; for French “spiderman

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#37. Day Students Climb by Night

For centuries, the gothic landscape of Cambridge University’s colleges has proven a temptation for many of its young students to climb. Whether for the danger, the sport or merely to avoid being lo

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#38. Foamy Velour Suits Challenge Authority,

The Archisuit project is four jogging suits matching four Los Angeles locations: a Hollywood public library, a Silver Lake fence, the Ronald Reagan State Building, and urban furniturees downtown.

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#39. Safety Materials Destabilize Park

A “pleasure garden” constructed out of typical safety materials designed for dangerous conditions.

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#40. Wheels Give Super Powers

A composite plastic-and-steel suit covered with free-spinning roller-skating wheels, the Roller Suit has six components: two arms, two legs, front, back, as well as additional protection for the sh

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#41. Clowns Confuse Protest Planners

Comic protesters who deliver unexpected results, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) make public appearances that do not meet traditional expectations of protest.

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#42. Starfish Stop Skateboarders

Skatestoppers come in five product lines, all with the same purpose: to prevent skateboarders, bikers, and rollerbladers from damaging structures by riding on them.

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#43. Spikes Keep Citizens Upright

A catalogue of anti-sitting devices installed to keep New Yorkers on their feet and off anything they could possibly sit on. Iron-and-steel spikes and railings grow like ivy, covering banisters, wi

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#44. City Grows Temporary Fortress

A high security “Red Zone” created with 4-metre-tall barricades in the centre of Genoa to protect the leaders of the Group of Eight during their 2001 summit.

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