This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Urbanists talk often about our right to mobility, working to ...
From Paris to Cork, the debate over benches reveals deeper tensions about design, policing, community needs and who public spaces serve Three years ago, police in Stanhope, Kent, took away park ...
Starting in the 1860s, the so-called "Davioud" benches began to appear throughout Paris. The goal was to democratize urban ...
A new yellow bench in Woodbine’s Krimgold Park and a new purple bench in Hampstead’s Cape Horn Park recently were installed to raise awareness of suicide prevention and help for those with mental ...