public space

From the Field

Paying to Play in the Mission District

Naomi Adiv - 16 February 2015

Naomi Adiv unpacks a viral video showing an argument between longtime San Francisco residents and “dot-commers” over...

Essays

“I, you, he, she, we are all Charlie”: what feeling concerned means

Gérôme Truc & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 February 2015

The attacks that took place in Paris in early January have affected French society in a way never seen before, as...

From the Field

In the Paris metro, hell is other people

Luke Haywood & Martin Koning & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2015

In the medical field, it is not unusual for remedies prescribed to combat a particular condition to have...

Essays

A Right to the Suburb? New Urbanism, Public Space, and the Law

Anthony Maniscalco - 8 December 2014

The American suburb is changing. It is racially and economically diverse. Its sterile spaces are being redesigned...

From the Field

Bypassing the city: divisions and divergences in Antananarivo

Catherine Fournet-Guérin & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 December 2014

In a context of global competition, major projects are the order of the day, including in the global South. The new...

From the Field

Flowers under the flagstones

Cédric Ansart & Emmanuel Boutefeu & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 October 2014

Cédric Ansart and Emmanuel Boutefeu explore new ways of enhancing city streets through the small-scale greening of...

Debates

The new banks of the Seine: all for the best, or just another Woody Allen set?

Mathieu Flonneau & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 May 2014

June 2013 saw the completion of a project to transform the riverside expressway on the Left Bank of the Seine in...

From the Field

Fighting for Retreat after Sandy: The Ocean Breeze Buyout Tent on Staten Island

Liz Koslov - 23 April 2014

On October 29, 2012, Staten Island, a borough of New York City, was on the front line when Hurricane Sandy ravaged...

Essays

For cities of a different nature

Jérémy Grangé & Sylvain Petitet & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 March 2014

City-dwellers want to see more of their metropolitan areas turned over to nature and urban public spaces; however,...

Essays

The sustainable metropolis: when night enlightens day

Luc Gwiazdzinski & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 March 2014

The night-time, long a neglected dimension of the city, can no longer be dismissed. Luc Gwiazdzinski invites us to...

From the Field

Coping with crowdedness in mass transportation

Martin Aranguren & Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 February 2014

Riding overcrowded metros, tubes or subways with dozens of strangers in varying moods is routinely viewed as a...

From the Field

Pedestrians, cars and the city

Cédric Feriel & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 May 2013

Pedestrianisation and the ability to get around the city on foot are key considerations in contemporary projects...

From the Field

Château Rouge: a “Little Africa” in Paris?

Marie Chabrol & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2013

The Château Rouge area of Paris is regarded as an “African neighbourhood”. But what is the reality behind this image?...

Reviews

Beirut: the new front lines of urban research

Éric Verdeil & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 May 2013

In Beirut, the extremely rapid transformations of both urban spaces and urban policy raise a number of questions...

Debates

Identity checks and the law

Nathalie Ferré & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 April 2013

In France, the issue of identity checks is at the heart of the thorny debate on how to ensure better relations...

From the Field

Regulating public spaces: the ambiguous role played by new professions

Jacques de Maillard & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 April 2013

Despite a hiatus in the debate on community policing in France, the “new professions” involved in regulating public...

Essays

Teenage mobility: a socialised and socialising practice

Julian Devaux & Nicolas Oppenchaim & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 March 2013

The comings and goings of teenagers, while a frequent source of tension in the parent–child relationship, are a...

Reviews

Free public transport: from social experiment to political alternative?

Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 March 2013

In a work combining storytelling and reflection, a local councillor and a philosopher analyse the policy of free...

From the Field

Renovation and consultation: Parisian approaches to redeveloping public spaces

Bruno Gouyette & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 February 2013

When renovating its public spaces, how does the city of Paris implement consultation processes required by French...

From the Field

Children’s autonomy and our relationship with public spaces

Clément Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 November 2012

The relationship between children and the city – a subject seldom studied in France in the past – has in recent years...

From the Field

Challenges in Co-Producing Publicly Accessible Spaces

Ulrich Berding & Antje Havemann & Juliane Pegels - 19 September 2012

Publicly accessible urban spaces are more often than not co-produced and maintained via ad hoc partnerships between...

Debates

The digital city: challenges for the future

Serge Wachter & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 May 2012

What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? Serge Wachter analyses the way in which...

From the Field

Haiti after the earthquake: camps, shanty towns and housing shortages

Gerry L’Étang & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 May 2012

In Haiti, in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, public squares became the sites of makeshift camps to provide...

Debates

The desirable city or the sustainable city: what is the role of green spaces?

Jean-François Guet & translated by Birdwell Institute - 2 November 2011

While green spaces are in great demand among city-dwellers, their presence alone is not enough to make the city...

Debates

Designing protests in urban public space

Tali Hatuka - 14 September 2011

Social and political protests in urban public spaces are multiplying in cities all around the world. Tali Hatuka...

From the Field

Making sustainability public: the bayou observation deck in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 20 June 2011

How can the residents of a flooded neighborhood in New Orleans, torn between reconstruction imperatives and...

Interviews

Drug-consumption rooms in the city?

Laurent El Ghozi & Nadine Roudil & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 May 2011

Following a number of experiments in Geneva and Bilbao, the question of whether supervised injection centres should...

From the Field

The Ladies Kingdom and Its Many Uses. A shopping mall in Riyadh for women only

Saba A. Le Renard & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 30 March 2011

The frenetic development of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia is unveiling new and unexpected urban realms, including a...

Interviews

Three questions to Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett & Philippe Simay & Stéphane Tonnelat - 15 December 2010

Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor, and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and at the...

Interviews

“Placemaking”: a new approach to designing and managing urban public spaces

Michèle Jolé & Stéphane Tonnelat - 23 November 2010

Based in New York City, PPS or "Project for Public Spaces" is an innovating urban planning and design company at...

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