ourbania is getting closer to the number of 500 objects. Want to be the one who enters the 500th urban item? Go on! Be an active citizen. We're curious to see where and what it is.

Currently, there's an interesting installation in Frankfurt/Germany by renowned dutch architect Ben van Berkel and various other artists, working together in a project group called "Space of Communication". Ben van Berkel designed the new Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.

The Thing: Ben van Berkel (1)

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Hi citizens, we're excited to see the community grow. More and more cities and urban items show up in ourbania. Thanks to all who contributed!

Last week, we experienced that quite a number of landscape projects, parks and the like have been added. So I'm wondering wether our fixed set of categories suits all these kind of urban items. What do you think? Does ourbania need more or different categories, for example to describe the building use?

If anything is missing here in ourbania, please tell us! Where here to make this place as easy to use and as informative for you as possible.

Just back from Berlin, I thought you might be interested in this event: In the course of a special exhibition, the Academie of Arts in Berlin illustrates the planning history of Interbau 1957 and the famous Hansaviertel with its 35 buildings.

© Akademie der Künste

There are already quite a number of web sites online dealing with real estate or architecture. The idea is, to bring certain aspects of these together in ourbania, a real estate community and web 2.0 platform based on user generated content. Our users — we call them citizens — are especially interested in commercial real estate and the so-called built environment, and they're at home on the internet and in the capital cities worldwide. Here they find the ambience which inspires and fascinates them.