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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across Australian cities, our public spaces are growing timid, safe and uniform – and Melbourne’s plan to strip the very red ...

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Public space isn’t quite so public anymore, and hostile architecture is to blame. Hostile architecture is an urban design strategy invoked during city planning stages to police who is allowed to be ...

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 ...

Contemporary cityscapes vary greatly from their early precedents, hosting urban life in sprawling interior spaces like mega-hotels, shopping malls, and transportation hubs. Soaring atriums and ...

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 ...

In late 2022, the Metropolitan City of Incheon, South Korea, along with the Housing and City Development Corporation, held an international competition for the design of the Geomdan Museum Library ...