Topic: Public Space
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Fill That Vacant Parking Space With a Rent-a-Tree
A designer in Milan creates mobile mini-parks.
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Urban Wonk
Beach Volleyball Bikinis and Women's Bodies in Public Space
The perception of women’s bodies as public property to be commented upon and regulated is one of the universal undercurrents of urban life.
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Olympics 2012
3 Lessons Every Olympic City Should Take to Heart
Done right, the Olympics can increase a city's public spaces and public transportation use.
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Can City Dwellers Have Nice Things?
Violence at New York's McCarren Park Pool has some suggesting all urban resources fall prey to the tragedy of the commons. Here's why this thinking is flawed.
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The Community Television
Seeing a public amenity in a street-facing TV in Ann Arbor.
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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.
