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Streetplay's mission is to document the great city games that we know and love. Over the years, we've wanted to allow our readers to collaborate with us, to make our knowledge base bigger and better. Now, technology has caught up with our desire and we're proud to announce the Streetplay Wiki (SPwiki for short).

Are there games you played in the street as a city youth? Are you a reasonably good writer with attention to detail? Sign up for a SPwiki account and help us make SPWiki the best web resource for urban games anyone can imagine.

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Some of the best street photography

We've assembled the Streetplay Galleries to present the work of professional artists who have documented the experience of play all over the world. Over the years, we've assembled some stunning exhibitions.

In this gallery, Kids at Play, Karen Bell shows us children in many different settings just having fun.

Featured articles

Hanging out: Death Step
A description of a unique flavor of stoopball where dangerous play is rewarded with more points.

Streeplay photos: Hanging out
Urban portraits of kids doing just about nothing out in the street.

A Playful World: Philadelphia
The Playful World project documents the games and play of children from different places around the globe, in this case, Philadelphia. Please share the joyful aspects of our shared cultures.

Member spotlight: Wendy
A lot of our readers have shared their stories with us first-hand in our Member Spotlight section. Here, Wendy tells us about how she likes to do the hula-hoop.

Stickball in Afghanistan
We're pretty sure this is a first. Stickball was played in the summer of 2004 by some American soldiers who are stationed at a firebase in Gardez, and we helped. If you think you've had to play on tough fields, read this!

Site highlights

In Tribute: Steve Mercado, FDNY
Steve Mercado, a leader in the stickball community, was one of the brave firefighters lost in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This is our tribute to him.
Streetplay at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Smithsonian Institution invited us to DC to introduce America to our favorite games. Read how it went!
Essays and Commentary
We're often asked to comment upon the benefits kids get through unsupervised, ad hoc play. Here, we address the evaporation of such activity in modern times
Streetplay Cineplex
Throw some popcorn in the microwave, grab a jumbo-sized soda and watch street games in motion right on your computer!
Streetplay Links
Maybe we're not Google, but we take a shot at listing some of our favorite play-related websites here.

Featured game: Marbles

Marbles is one of the many games we cover in The Games section.

Bernie DeKoven's Junklog
Junkyard Sports site syndication

Shootball
Shootball ...is a new sport in ubiquitous computing. This game is playing with tangible ball that can control movies displayed in surrounding screens....

Junkyard Sports in the Funny Paper
Getting the idea of Junkyard Sports to the masses, especially to the family masses, seems to be proceeding apace - a very slow pace, but proceeding nevertheless....

Rock-It-Ball
Rock-it-Ball is played with something like a soft tennis ball and plastic sticks with scoops on each end. It's a combination of something like wall...

Leet - the sport
It's called Leet (http: playleet.com index). So, play the video (http: www.youtube.com watch?v=VHTgTwclL-g eurl=http: www.blogger.com post-create.g?blogID=3510012)...

Aesthletics - sports artists
Aesthletics (http: art.rutgers.edu 7Erussotti aesthletics Aesthletics.html) with an...

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