Topic: Public Space
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How Smart Phones Are Turning Our Public Places Into Private Ones
Smart phones have given us a lot of great benefits, but this is not one of them.
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Photos
A Gigantic Fake Forest For Birds-Eye Hang Outs
Singapore's new "supertrees" provide an urban space in the sky.
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Oslo Takes its Streets Back from Terror, with a Song
More than 40,000 people showed up in the rain in a show of defiance against admitted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
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BMW Guggenheim Cancels Its Berlin Exhibition Amid Threats of Violence
Left-wing activists threatened to "derail" the project, arguing it would speed gentrification.
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Los Angeles Seeks Pedestrians
A pilot project aims to pave the way for community-led reuses of L.A. streets.
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In Defense of Loitering
Cities have tried to ban people from hanging around. This is a big mistake.
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Should Public Trees Bear Fruit?
San Francisco's "Guerilla Grafters" are transforming the city's trees into bootleg fruit producers, much to the chagrin of officials.
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How the Occupy Movement Changed Urban Government
In an increasingly globalized world, Occupy Wall Street reinforced the primacy of place.
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Photos
How to Memorialize the AIDS Crisis
A look at some ideas for a park in New York City.
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Videos
How Seville Sold Its Citizens on a Massive Galactic Public Sculpture
The formerly despised work is now a central part of the city's urban fabric.
