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Public Space
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Viewpoints
Why Shade Is America’s Most Overlooked Infrastructure
Sam Bloch's Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource, makes a compelling argument that the simplest climate adaptation may also be the one cities have neglected the longest.
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Projects
Baltimore Reclaims the Public Pool
CannonDesign’s modular pool strategy is delivering affordable and flexible aquatic centers to neighborhoods long excluded from public infrastructure.
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Projects
Deanna Van Buren Is Designing Justice and Belonging in Detroit
In collaboration with Quinn Evans and Allied Media Projects, the LOVE Building shows how architecture rooted in care, access, and justice can help shape a more inclusive future.
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MOS’s New Book On Public Space, Power, and Communication
Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith from MOS architects make the case for evidence-based city design—and reveal how public space is shaped by power, ownership, and use.
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The Past, Present, and Future of Public Outdoor Space
Three recent initiatives in Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Los Angeles imagine an equitable future for public space.
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Projects
The Rebirth of Houston’s Giant but Ailing Memorial Park
The newly opened Memorial Park Land Bridge and Prairie is the first phase in the revitalization of the drought-stricken 1,500-acrepark, the largest urban green space in Texas.
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Projects
Railyard Park Signifies a Small-Town Renaissance in Northwest Arkansas
Partially funded by the Walton Family Foundation’s Design Excellence Program, Ross Barney Architects’ five-acre project is part of a surprising public space boom in the region.
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Projects
Arthur Erickson’s Decades-Old Vision for Vancouver’s Robson Square Is Finally Realized
The revised plazas, which encircle the Vancouver Art Gallery, streamline Robson Square as a continuous, pedestrianized public space with nods to local culture.
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Addressing the Intersecting Challenges of Climate Change, Housing, and Social Equity
A partnership between the Rudy Bruner Award and Northeastern University, recent “Inspiring Design” sessions examined how inclusive places and practices build social capital to drive systemic change.
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Viewpoints
The Rudy Bruner Award Continues Its Speaker Series: Engaging Communities via Food and Education
A partnership with Northeastern University, "Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just, and Resilient Places in America" draws on the award organization's national network.
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Profiles
Q&A: Mariana Mogilevich on New York City’s Path to a More Democratic and Diverse Civic Realm
Upon the release of her book The Invention of Public Space, the architectural historian discusses a little-known but pivotal chapter of urban history.
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Projects
The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Launches a Speaker Series Dedicated to Planning Equity
A partnership with Northeastern University, "Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just, and Resilient Places in America" draws on the award organization's national network.
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Viewpoints
From the British Melting Pot, “New London Fabulous” Emerges
The slew of recent projects emphasize color’s capacity to bring joy to the public sphere. Just don’t call it a movement.
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Projects
A Parking Lot Becomes a Vibrant and Versatile Public Space—For Now
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Starlight Square serves as an ideal community center in the age of social-distancing.
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Profiles
Game Changers 2020: WXY and Future Green on Collaborative Urbanism
Next in our annual Game Changers series, Claire Weisz of WXY and David Seiter of Future Green discuss the complexities of designing within New York's diverse biomes and histories.
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Viewpoints
On this Fourth of July, Remember that Public Space is Democracy’s Great Stage
Making public space unwelcome is a perversion of its purpose, writes ASLA president Wendy Miller in this op-ed. Too often over the past few weeks, the central promise of the civic realm has been turned on its head.
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Viewpoints
The Pandemic and Protests Have Highlighted Just How Unequal Our Cities Are
With a new urban crisis surfacing, designers from around the world propose radical changes to transportation, cooperative living, and public space.
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Products
How Fermob Sparked a Revolution in Public Space
Even in the age of social distancing, the brand’s iconic French Bistro chair can teach us about coming together in public space.
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Projects
A Textural Patchwork—and Grove of Redwoods—Takes Up Residence in San Francisco
855 Brannan, a mixed-use complex by David Baker Architects, generously makes the most of outdoor living for tenants and the public alike.
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Projects
Kuehn Malvezzi’s Employment Office Kills Three Birds with One (Stone) Building
In Oberhausen, Germany, a new government center is topped by a greenhouse and thoughtfully extends public space.