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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Public spaces represent the nexus of urban form and social activity, where design and interaction converge to shape liveable cities. Recent scholarship emphasises how physical attributes—such as ...

Image courtesy of MOS, click to enlarge. There are no perfect public spaces. Public space is constantly changing, shifting, never quite fixed. It is shaped by laws, by regulations, private ownership, ...

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 ...

Evaluating processes and outcomes of climate change adaptation enables learning to facilitate climate-resilient pathways and prevent potentially unjust outcomes. A new study by Vanesa Castán Broto and ...

Architecture is often evaluated through what gets built. But in many cases, what matters happens after: how spaces are used, adapted, and made part of everyday life. For Región Austral, winner of ...

When integrated early into civic planning, public art can help tell collective stories, create belonging and spark community connection. Courtesy of Svigals + Partners Public art plays a distinct role ...

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