Public Space.

At two in the afternoon on the last day of July 2024, a Greenpeace technician points a thermographic camera at the granite of the Plaza Mayor and the screen returns a number close to sixty-three degrees. A few hundred…

On a grey morning on Plac Piłsudski, the scaffolding tells you nothing about what is being built. The raw brick walls rising on the western edge of the square could be a new development anywhere in central Warsaw — ex…

At the eastern edge of the National Garden, on a stretch of Vasilissis Olgas that used to carry four lanes of traffic past the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the asphalt is gone and the cars with it. What is there instead, …

On a side street in the 11th arrondissement, just east of where the boulevards thin out into the working grain of the city, someone has been at the foot of a plane tree with a trowel. The square metre of earth that us…

On a bright February morning in 2026, a tram slides into the new terminus at La Doua–Gaston Berger, on the northern edge of Villeurbanne, and disgorges a carriage-full of students into a campus that, for the first tim…

On a quiet stretch of the Bulevardul Magheru, between a phone shop and a shuttered cinema, a small painted disc the size of a saucer sits at eye level on an interwar façade. It is red, and it means what everyon…