Is there such a thing as anti-public seating? We’re all used to the presence of urban furniture as an accessible public good, from benches to bike racks and bus shelters. But what happens when the ...

Sit down. Seth Caplan wants to tell you to listen to a story. After studying public rituals, habits, and norms of pedestrian life, the New York-based artist had an idea: place two audio boxes on two ...

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In Los Angeles, volunteers have been painting their own crosswalks, reasoning that safer streets shouldn’t be held up by red tape. Now, a group of them is channeling that same DIY energy to another ...