The San Francisco Shared Spaces Program, initiated in Spring 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been the centerpiece of the City’s small business stabilization and retention strategy. To date, it has impacted hundreds of locally-owned small businesses, thousands of their employees, and dozens of neighborhood commer…

A new public space in the London Borough of Brent designed by young people for young people Samovar Space, the first of the four public spaces conceived and designed by young people involved in the LSE Apprenticeship Programme in City Design, was officially opened on Saturday 22 October. The scheme, located at the…

In Spring 2022, the new pavilion opened on the Novartis Campus in Basel, where a multimedia exhibition guides visitors through a Life Sciences experience highlighting achievements and capabilities in the field. The building, designed by architect Michele de Lucchi, is located directly on the Rhine, and as a public spac…

Instead of desperately trying to reduce road congestion in the short term, politicians should be using traffic as a tool for making urban transport more sustainable, writes Phineas Harper. New research claims London's roads are themost congested in the world. But rather than wasting money and emissions buildi…

African cities are undergoing rapid urbanisation as well as transformations in their health and socio-economic sectors. Public spaces, where people of different ethnicity, religion, gender, and class meet, are both a projection surface of society and an arena of action for a wide range of development needs, such as eco…

In November 2020, the residents of an eight-storey apartment complex in the wealthy area of El Retiro in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, drafted a petition to the city mayor asking to “remove or relocate the agglomeration” of delivery workers that used the sidewalk to wait for their next assignment. These workers, cal…