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NYC's Chief Public Realm Officer shares 15 ways NYC is improving public spaces, including establishing a Public Space Academy to provide technical assistance and resources to public space partners. The plan focuses on making resources more attainable, such as open street permits by standardizing agreements and lowering insurance requirements. (NYC.gov)
An art Installation titled, "The Wabash Lights," will light up the underside of Chicago's L tracks, with prompts made by pedestrians. In this upcoming art installation, the artist will invite the public to activate 50-foot stretches of custom-built LEDs by scanning QR codes. (Chicago Magazine)
Queer urban design is less about functionality and more about nurturing the human spirit. Incorporating queer urbanism also requires involving queer people "at all levels of planning," including hiring queer planners and centering their voices. (ArchDaily)
Large weekly exchanges—sometimes involving cheese—are the way to your neighbor's heart! In a rapidly growing movement to reclaim cities through hyperlocal neighborliness, one group in Paris is aiming to increase interaction between neighbors from five times daily to 50 times a day. (The New York Times)
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