Public Space.

Madrid's new urban masterplan was supposed to be a victory lap. Then the mayor walked it back herself, in front of a city council she'd cobbled together. Inside the rare political moment when a leader admitt…

A small office in Warsaw's Praga district has spent five years writing speculative briefs for buildings that will never be built. Their archives are now being cited by city architects across the bloc. We open the…

Greece's capital pulled up 14 km of arterial asphalt in 18 months. The temperature data is one story. The acoustic data is another. The third — and least expected — is a 19% drop in summer hospital admissions in …

The eleventh arrondissement of Paris is the densest in the city, the second-densest residential district in Europe, and one of the few places in central Paris where, on a hot July afternoon, you can walk along a pavem…

Lyon retired its trams in 1957. The new ones started running in January 2001. Between those two dates the city built a metro, watched the population of central Lyon decline, and discovered that the absence of a tram n…

A loose collective of Romanian architects has spent two years simply refusing public commissions they consider environmentally indefensible. The city is starting to listen. The architects are starting to lose work. Bo…