Mixed-media sculpture of Manhattan.

Italian artist Franco Recchia twists discarded transistors, motherboards and other technological detritus into stunning sculptures of cityscapes. Junk is renewed and recycled into things of beauty, something actual cities need to do more and more. Look here to see additional Recchia cityscapes, which will soon be on display in New York at Agora Gallery. (Thanks Boing Boing.)

Pittsburgh, a city that wisely downsized and reimagined itself in the waning days of the Industrial Age, gets the Recchia treatment.