THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

PARKOUR

Parkour treats architecture and urban space as an obstacle course to be traversed in a challenging and extraordinary manner.  That some of the most electrifying online examples happen in the modernist wastelands of the Paris suburbs and the former Soviet bloc, where abandoned concrete plazas cry out for rejuvenation, suggests a radical means for remaking one’s own failed surroundings.  French teenager David Belle told the New Yorker: “It’s a method for learning how to move in the world.  For finding the liberty men used to have.”

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