CUNY Academic Commons | Setha Low | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/sethalow/activity/ Activity feed for Setha Low. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 99c1b094af95daec59e35658f364c735 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2205 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:21:24 -0400 PSRG Joins UN Habitat Global Public Space Network (GPSN) The PSRG is excited to announce our involvement with UN Habitat’s Global Public Space Network. Launched in 2012, UN-Habitat’s Global Public S […]

]]> 8e92589fc49e9db58bb6390d87291bc1 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2191 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:42:36 -0400 2025 Beach Access Network Research Workshop (UFRJ & UFS, Brazil)2025 Beach Access Network Research Workshop (UFRJ & UFS, Brazil) August 2025 in Brazil, with public events in two sessions and two locations: […]

]]> be1b43e89a3e4821a211fab8c1a7cd57 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2163 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:59:25 -0500 Trapped: Does the Security Industry Make Us Less Safe Trapped: Does the Security Industry Make Us Less Safe March 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Free Can security be bought? At this moment w […]

]]> d39daa16073e1c9345ae231d9b7287bd Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2114 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:33:38 -0400 WUF12: Public Space Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals WUF12: Public Space Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals November 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Free The PSRG announces that they w […]

]]> 1d58ab57304bb72b733a647209b13aa0 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2112 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:31:03 -0400 WUF12: Sensing the City New ways of understanding public space through photography, mapping, soundscapes, attachment, and feeling WUF12: Sensing the City New ways of understanding public space through photography, mapping, soundscapes, attachment, and feeling November 7 @ […]

]]> 10acf031132635613a3dbe02b11b50f6 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2109 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:30:04 -0400 WUF12: Public Space Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals WUF12: Public Space Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals November 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Free The PSRG announces that they w […]

]]> 45044f5ea08d1f471ad718810159c115 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2105 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:28:51 -0400 WUF12: Food in the City Connecting Livelihoods, Culture, and Sense of Home for Newcomers WUF12: Food in the City Connecting Livelihoods, Culture, and Sense of Home for Newcomers November 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Free The P […]

]]> 785d47ce89c416986b812f2f0dcbcb20 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2081 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:11:48 -0400 Assessing the Impact of Pop-up Public Space Activations The PSRG is excited to announce a research partnership with Street Lab, a nonprofit that works with NYC communities to activate and improve […]

]]> ca279b4dc36de7769167d03ba8aafe1c Setha Low is attending The Academic YouTuber: A practical guide to engaging a wider public. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/760772/ Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:27:09 -0400 841628dc279052236481797e39498fdb Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1494 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:38:39 -0500 A few months ago, you could barely find a street musician in Kentron (downtown) Yerevan. Only two old patriots in the North Avenue held their corner playing Accordion and singing nationalist pieces and folk songs […]

]]> f8ffbbe2f5a8043282289ffc60b66f15 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1151 Fri, 08 May 2020 21:38:01 -0400 On  Friday, May 1 from 12-1:30 Lucy Robson and Emily Walker from New Yorkers for Parks (NY4P) gave an inspiring presentation of their goals as an organization, a review of the research and outreach that they do, […]

]]> 0242caa2cfb368e0841b4d21a61f1743 Setha Low's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/670795/ Fri, 08 May 2020 21:35:06 -0400 3eed695b2ff56697d6fc6d7df220fd22 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1175 Fri, 08 May 2020 19:33:54 -0400    

Since late January this year, life in Seattle has steadily descended into an unsettling and uncharted reality, like many other cities around the wo […]

]]> e9bb3083a55b867138e57aa3e309ae43 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1145 Sun, 03 May 2020 17:45:22 -0400  

A planet under the siege! It sounds like a new Hollywood’s movie or a latest science fiction novel about the invasion of aliens. Unfortunately, it’s not!  It’s rather the brutal reality that we’re f […]

]]> 71536435d9eb049c45707f260576e423 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1131 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:30:11 -0400 It was just before coronavirus outbreak in Croatia that my colleague Nevena Skrbic Alempijevic and I had a public presentation of our book The City as Encounter. Ethnographies of Zagreb Squares (in […]

]]> bb4a1a69db77da3b1d07c2faf717eb6c Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1126 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:47:23 -0400 Where I live, on the Upper West side of Manhattan it is relatively quiet now, but there are some people outside.  About 90 percent are wearing masks, everyone is social distancing.  There are some stores and m […]

]]> 443ca2fe2473b89a686e93341d1ebc06 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1120 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:35:05 -0400 It is Day 10 of Lockdown 2.0. Supposed to last until April 15, the national lockdown has been extended till 3rd May. There are talks of extending it further if the situation does not improve. As of 24th April, […]

]]> c3e711626c213338479800d7a2060ee2 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1116 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:58:27 -0400 One of the long-term dangers of the coronavirus pandemic is that it may well exacerbate the worst tendencies of modern sprawl: all of the encapsulated, sedentary, car-dependent habits that have left us […]

]]> da6f2cd97b2c28691856fadff69a3abd Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1112 Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:41:33 -0400 El Space Toolkit: http://designtrust.org/publications/el-space-toolkit/ [designtrust.org]

 

Future Culture: Connecting Staten Island’s Waterfront: ht […]

]]> 7a5c01c98ec2ccdf4595921cb767bdc2 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1106 Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:01:17 -0400  

The UK government has just announced another 3 weeks of lockdown. This revived something of the initial panic in a lot of people. Over the last 3 weeks, the supermarket shelves had gone back to almost […]

]]> 64a71df23334dcff647c04b273da9822 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1100 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:26:04 -0400  

 

Riding the subway has never been more daunting in Taipei. If somebody clears his or her throat slightly at any given moment, those standing around would all have a glimpse of that p […]

]]> 83d6db35ce1007b1fd77a4ee9d31ea57 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1064 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:11:33 -0400 Please join us Friday, May 1, 12-1:30 for our New Yorkers for Parks presentation by Lucy Robson and Emily Walker and Policy Discussion of :

 

New Yorkers for Parks: Adapting Research & Advocacy in a Public […]

]]> a90b3b933545d59ec12181daa5ed0229 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1060 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 14:54:15 -0400 Every day for nearly a month now, looking out onto East 19th Street from my desk at the front window of my house in Oakland’s Clinton neighborhood, I have been unceasingly surprised by the number of people w […]

]]> c75e84d690a02fa5884ac7b7bee40205 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1053 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 12:57:19 -0400 Tessza Udvarhelyi, PhD
cultural anthropologist & environmental psychologist
board member, School of Public Life
Head of Community Participation Office, Municipality of the 8th District of Budapest

I have […]

]]> bf0776654f9f1855cdf2785c13c47c1f Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1027 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 02:58:30 -0400 Quick note from Ta Quynh Hoa Lecturer of Architecture and Planning Faculty National University of Civil Engineering ( Hanoi, Vietnam) Member of TRYSPACES project  on the transformation of public spaces for […]

]]> be80076faa2a206dd34d01a9b1e2e64a Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=998 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:18:41 -0400 I’ve been waiting to experience an “ah ha!” moment before sending in any observation to the Group. Unfortunately, maybe fortunately, the kinds of “ah ha” moments I’m thinking about are more commonly generated […]

]]> b6e4e7e1ad2d1bfec4e238c8b16faf43 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=994 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:03:45 -0400  

I live in South London in a small block of 10 flats, mainly owned by young professionals. We have a communal garden that is quite big, but no one takes care of it except me. People think of it as […]

]]> 5128f59d90db7a5378914f58d3839f75 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=981 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:32:37 -0400 We have now been confined for two weeks in our apartment, fortunately big enough for us four not to get on each others nerves too much. The kids are enjoying the break from classes as the teachers are not […]

]]> bf5fb430ecce42335fb3559453d083e7 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=977 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:13:32 -0400 Your query on evolving new space uses in these stay-home situations certainly applies here in the Philippines although in significantly different ways. Government in its usual top-down fashion has dropped a strong […]

]]> 765cdf78bf36440d463464b13a148c71 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=973 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:08:05 -0400 “Public space” or gong gong kongjian (公共空間) in China means official and shared space. That is, the “public” in public space—“gong gong” in gong gong kongjian in Chinese—is made of two different characters an […]

]]> 56205e3781b970039ccca7ccf30d7b24 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=964 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:38:18 -0400 Here is my reflection before and during the quarantine for 10 days in Brooklyn, New York .

From the last week of February I started working from home. The week before, I was walking outside my office in […]

]]> 7f1982452750653d451fe4c5dc856d07 Setha Low's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/661213/ Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:31:01 -0400 8f0ab7c1699d31a031858fa044962b0c Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=951 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 17:36:57 -0400 Everyday life here in Sweden is far from normal with online teaching, home schooling etc, but it still seems as if Sweden is among the most “open” countries in Europe so far which is interesting. An experiment […]

]]> 3e6265e216e0e31f0c48809e13413241 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=941 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:53:32 -0400 “Never waste a good crisis” – as the saying goes. Well this is a big one, so perhaps there are opportunities here that should not be wasted. We are seeing the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depre […]

]]> da382a5f48f38d4f87ab16c96fea6804 Setha Low wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=931 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:47:58 -0400 In an effort to stay connected and share experiences from around the world, we’re inviting you to send us your observations of public social life in the era of social distancing. While we need to be staying i […]

]]> 42f35e1a96f6de64da545ef7c12826f7 Setha Low changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/222040/ Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:17:25 -0400 77e5b868474fb390a4651a7bf87817a3 Setha Low became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/222039/ Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:11:44 -0400