This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Public space is cherished both by the people who use it and the ...

Public space is a key element for sustainable urban development. Despite its broad and context-specific meaning, public space is the social glue that can contribute to advancing mutual trust, ...

We did not cut highway fatalities by banning cars. It engineered safer roads, required seat belts, mandated crash testing and ...

Explore the role of public space in urban life with Región Austral, where design adapts to community needs and collective use ...

The Design Trust for Public Space opens its 12th Request for Proposals (RFP) cycle, a citywide call for project ideas that address key public space challenges. The 2025 RFP theme Water: Designing an ...

As the baby boomer generation ages, cities must rethink the accessibility of public spaces. Comfort, legibility and geometric ...

As cities continue to evolve, the challenge of balancing urbanization with ecological and cultural preservation has become increasingly relevant. Landscape and urban designer Yihui Wang integrates ...

Lucas Chen/Daily. Buy this photo. About 100 community members gathered at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market Friday evening to attend a community forum on the new design plan for the first-floor public ...

Rendering of the Walter Gladwin Recreation Center in the Bronx envisions 40,000 square foot indoor and outdoor recreation and community center (Courtesy NYC Public Design Commission) Since 1983, the ...

Designers love intention. Architects draw immaculate plans; curators craft pristine galleries; developers imagine carefully choreographed public experiences. But once the general population shows up, ...

Can a public space feel healthy and equitable? DePaul University researchers are looking at the built environment and public spaces hoping to answer that question with the help of high-tech wearable ...

These public spaces can take various forms depending on the context. Some are large-scale interventions, such as parks, where landscape design and urban equipment create new spaces for the community.