Ron Arad's tempered steel wheels give a surprisingly smooth ride the faster you go. Photo via Ron Arad.

The community-driven art project is meant to confront the negative imagery of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Leonel Ponce.

May the force be with you. Photo by the Official Star Wars Blog.

Hold on to your Stormtrooper gear, Star Wars fans, because we’ve got some galactic transport news for you!

By creating physical manifestations of digital geolocation markers, artist Aram Bartholl comments on the perceptions of a city. All photos by Aram Bartholl.

Iepe Rubingh, a Dutch artist, transformed a busy intersection in Berlin into a public art piece. “Painting Reality” is composed of bikers spilling liters of environmentally friendly and water-based paint in the path of moving traffic. Once spilled into the road, the various shades of color are spread into the street by the moving wheels of cars.

HIK Ontwerpers, an Utrecht-based design firm, installed slides at the Overvecht Station to help passengers catch their trains. Officially called a “transfer accelerator,” the slide is part of a set of urban installations. Previous to the installation, the Overvecht Station was in a state of disrepair with the concrete slowly decaying.