I stole the title from Michel de Certeau, and this isn’t a how-to exactly, more of a how do we, how can we? These days…
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As an LA native I would have never imagined that a bike movement would ever flourish in this city. Not because it’s impossible, but because…
Last Saturday, some 3,000 thousand people gathered around Saint Paul’s cathedral in London to “Occupy the London Stock Exchange” (or LSX). Two days later, the…
Is the lack of recreational space making us fatter? Probably. (Among other things) Americans are getting fatter every day. I’m sure there’s a statistic out…
From the moment I step out of my front door in the morning to the moment I come home at night, around 300 surveillance cameras…
Whenever I despair about our diminishing public sector, I reflect on The Library as a sacrosanct bastion of democracy. But now, even that is prey…
What if school was full of things that your were dying to learn? Where students are teachers and teachers are students?
It’s what we did on the 23rd, we did it to hold our own People’s Assembly, and extraordinary it was too! The crowd outside was…
I spent a good portion of my childhood and college years in Paris and during that time, I spent many a day with my friends…
I believe as I’ve mentioned previously, I’m not that into public spaces, though I have nothing against them personally. But there is one such public…
This week I read in the paper that the Los Angeles City Council was awarding $18 million to finish a project that has been a…
Community space! As I stumbled back home late one Friday night after many hours of travel to get from a tiny town in Southern France…
Everyone agrees that Chicago Public Schools have to change. Yet there are fierce disagreements over what kinds of changes must be made, who should lead…
No doubt I’m the last cat who should be writing about public space. I mean here at home in Los Angeles I rarely think about…
More than any other city I’ve been to, Berlin is the closest thing in my mind to what a city “built for the people” looks…
A few weeks ago, Aiyana Stanley Jones was killed by the Detroit police, who raided her home while she was sleeping. The incident passed the…
This Mothers’ Day I would like to pay special tribute to (you Mom, of course), but also to the women known as Las Madres de…
James Rojas is an urban planner who devotes a lot of his time to translating the impenetrable maps and language of land use planning into…
When thinking about urban environmental repair, there is perhaps no better place to start than in what may seem to be the most unlikely of…