Shade, water and benches: public space for hotter summers
What European cities are trying as summers get hotter: trees, shade, drinking fountains, misting, cool streets and better benches, plus a street checklist.
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Urban Culture
How cities live: neighbourhoods, walls, markets, nights and the everyday culture that grows in streets and squares.
Artistic activism and the city: when art takes a side in the street
Critical Mass rides, guerrilla gardens, occupied theatres and silent protests: how art takes a side in public space, the ethics involved and what lasts.
Listening to the city: soundwalks, radio art and field recording
From R. Murray Schafer and Hildegard Westerkamp to radio art and field recording, with a step by step method for leading a soundwalk in your own streets.
Bucharest beyond the boulevards: a walk through its cultural spaces
A walk through Bucharest's cultural spaces, from contemporary art in the Palace of the Parliament to Lipscani, Cișmigiu, the Athenaeum and interwar villas.
Athens walls: street art, empty buildings and who the paint is for
A walk through Exarchia, Psyrri, Metaxourgeio and Kerameikos, reading the murals, tags and empty houses of central Athens and the arguments around them.
Vienna's Gemeindebau courtyards: council housing as public space
How Vienna's Gemeindebau courtyards work as shared space, from Red Vienna and the Karl-Marx-Hof to art on housing, and how to walk through them with respect.