Idil Onen presenting at aaa conference in New Orleans on debris of memory.

Can a Beach Really Be Evil? Ask the Sun-Seekers in Good Sahel.

Can a Beach Really Be Evil? Ask the Sun-Seekers in Good Sahel. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

The Politics Behind the Redesign of New York’s Benches

The Politics Behind the Redesign of New York’s Benches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/n...

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Setha Low on Public Spaces - Social Science Space Having been raised in Los Angeles, a place with vast swathes of single-family homes connected by freeways, arriving in Costa Rica was […]

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Opinion | Why must we all suffer? Bring back benches. America is increasingly standing room only.

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Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

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Why concrete might be doing more harm than good in the fight against flood risks | CNN Much of the modern world is built on the idea that we can control water. But concrete infrastructure is failing amid unprecedented levels of rain. With ‘sponge cities,’ landscape architect Kongjian Yu...

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Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing? And how do we get them back?

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Death of a Tree | Benjamin Swett Some years ago I published a book called New York City of Trees. On facing pages of photographs and text, it presented portraits of fifty-five trees in

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Innovative parks aren't just bold urban design—they lower the temperature in cities Parks like the High Line have a dramatic effect on the temperature of the city around them.

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The Perils of ‘Design Thinking’ A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted.

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‘What Art Does’ Review: Brian Eno’s Mind at Play The influential musician and producer ponders the nature of human creativity.

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Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.

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For sale by the GOP: Our public land — and our shared history Trump's "big beautiful bill" puts millions of acres in the West at risk

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Speaking in Milan at urbanist conference. What a treat!

Did animals provide the blueprints for human culture? | Aeon Essays Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world

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Opinion | The Dying Liberal University In his new book, David Rieff mourns a lost ideal.

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Lincoln Center Will Finally Face Its Neighbors As it aims to be more welcoming, the institution will remove a forbidding wall to open up Damrosch Park.

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The Most Terrifying Company in America Is Probably One You’ve Never Heard Of Palantir’s rise reflects the direction liberal democracies are taking: toward automated judgment and algorithmic inference—and toward control, streamlined, scalable, surgical.

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Who can use Florida’s beaches? Depends on where you are The fight over beach access is unlikely to end in Florida, where growing populations and eroding beaches create arguments over invisible lines in the sand.

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What a history of underground parking reveals about postwar policy | Aeon Essays The explosion of automobiles shaped cities and lives. But an enduring problem remains: where to put them when they’re parked

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What’s Driving Trump’s Attack on Museums An ousted museum director from Poland explains why museums are on the “front lines” when populists take power.

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String Theory | Susan Tallman Two exhibitions focused on weaving go beyond the functional, the folkloric, and the feminine, tracking fiber’s escape from the connotations of the grid.

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Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studio Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.

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Bryant Park Grill’s Operators Are Suing to Prevent a Jean-Georges Takeover Ark Restaurants say that it lost in “a sham bidding process.”

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How Progressives Froze the American Dream The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

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Where Is Our Post-Car City? We need to be building it all right now. Instead, we’re stuck in traffic.

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Land Power An award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land For millennia, la...

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Trapped: Does the Security Industry Make Us Less Safe? YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center

ICYMI, watch the timely discussion, “Trapped: Does the Security Industry Make Us Less Safe?” - feat. @sethalow.bsky.social & Mark Maguire in conversation w @alexvitale.bsky.social – now up on YouTube! youtu.be/zUjSGh-0YLg