Urban Air

Los Angeles artist Stephen Glassman has plans for the steel frames that hoist billboards above his concrete city. He wants to transform them into suspended bamboo gardens, transforming the scenery of thousands of commuters every day. His project, that we can often lose sight of.

To create the garden billboards, Glassman and his crew alter the existing structure, install planters, plant the bamboo, hook up a misting system and set up a wifi network that monitors the space around them. Glassman says, “when people are stuck in traffic, they look up and they see an open space of fresh air.” Most recently, the project successfully raised $100,000 on Kickstarter to kick off the concept and broaden its visibility to inspire other cities around the world to do the same.

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