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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 @ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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