About the book:
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the world is faced with an unprecedented challenge. It must address a fundamental shift in the world's population towards the cities, and away from mankind's rural roots. Today, for the first time in history, more than half of the global population resides in urban areas - a number likely to reach a staggering 75 per cent by 2050.

The Endless City: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society is an unparalleled investigation into the world’s urban future.  Taking six major world cities as its focal point, the book examines the key social, structural and economic factors that are critical to creating a thriving modern city.

Authoritatively edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, with essays by internationally renowned contributors from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, The Endless City presents a pioneering initiative on the future of cities.

City of Sound and Russel Davies are gathering photos for their Best Urban Spaces and Places project:

... We're using a Flickr group, so you join that and then send appropriate photos of great urban spaces or places to the group. (Once you've joined our group, use the 'Send to group' function above your photo. If you don't have a Flickr account, you can sign up for free.) Once we've a suitably rich set, we'll filter it down, and publish the best in a free downloadable pamphlet form, with a more stylish printed offering for sale (though free to successful contributors).

For the purposes of this project, I'm not overly worried about the knotty definitions of 'place' or 'space' - or even how you choose to interpret 'best' (the academic within will worry over that, but really, you shouldn't). It'll just be interesting to see what emerges. And I'm also aware that a photo-centric project will not allow much in the way of sound or other sensory information, or memory, but it'll do. Yahoo's maps integration is so clunky that it's not going to be worth fully exploiting that layer, at least initially, but we do ask that you use photo's caption area to describe the place a bit. That would be both useful and informative.

The places and spaces don't all have to have the perceived gravitas of a Piazza San Marco or a Greenwich Village, either. It could simply be a bench, a garden, a market, a tram stop, a library ... it's your call.

Read City of Sound for more information.

Today we passed the 25. May Sports-center again and I was very happy to see that they were renewing the windows. For years It looked like they'd let this building fall into disrepair. Maybe there is hope for this beautiful building.
This part of the building is empty since a long time. In another part is a public swimming pool. Two years ago I went for a swim there. It's an amazing place.

A typically serbian thing are these Houseboats along the river Danube and Sava. Some of them are Holiday houses, restaurants and clubs.