http://www.wideurbanspaces.com Urban Pictures and City Life Around the World Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:32:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Arts in the open add color to a busy city, especially round a hasty rail road station. At Place du Havre, a pile clocks tells you when the trains departure. Or so you would think. 'Accumulation' is a sculpture by the late French artist Armand Pierre Fernandez, known as Arman. It's ... http://www.wideurbanspaces.com/france/paris/accumulation-at-place-du-havre/ It's an icon of France. Almost anyone in the world knows that the Eiffel Tower is a landmark in Paris. It was erected on Champs de Mars beside the Seine River between 1887 and 1889, designed by architect Gustave Eiffel. In the summer 2008, the Eiffel Tower became adorned with a ... http://www.wideurbanspaces.com/france/paris/the-stars-of-the-eiffel-tower/ In October 2008, Copenhagen was named the Cycle City of the Year 2008 by the Danish Cyclists Federation; for a good reason. Every day, one third of the 1.7m citizens in Copenhagen ride 715,000 miles (1.15m km) on the 242 miles (389 km) bikeways, lanes and the so-called green routes. Riding a ... http://www.wideurbanspaces.com/denmark/copenhagen/bicycles-bicycles-bicycles/ Like many other big cities around the world, Copenhagen also has a triumphal arch. The arch is placed on Halmtorvet in the Vesterbro quarter. Take a closer look at the photo. It's really a gable painting from 1991 called 'The Triumphal Arch' by Danish artist Peter Abelin, painted with the so-called trompe ... http://www.wideurbanspaces.com/denmark/copenhagen/the-triumphal-arch/ One of my favorite urban spaces is the south end of the Lake in Central Park. First of all, it's a small open area fenced in by Bow Bridge, a diversity of apartment buildings on Central Park West, the skyscrapers to the south and the open shoreline on the east side. Then ... http://www.wideurbanspaces.com/usa/newyorkcity/the-lake-in-central-park/ Tycho Brahe Planetarium is an exciting building in the center of Copenhagen. Despite its name, it's not a real planetarium. It's a public center for astronomy and natural science and an IMAX theater, named after the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). The exhibition inside the planetarium features models of the solar ... http://www.wideurbanspaces.com/denmark/copenhagen/tycho-brahe-planetarium/