CABE, UK government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space, has recently released a report entitled ‘Ordinary Places’, which is intended as a starting point for debate about creating the culture and conditions to help ordinary places to become valued and valuable. Ordinary places – the residential areas around big city centres, smaller post-industrial [...]

The Astoria Scum River Bridge created by urban artists Jason Eppink and Posterchild is an exemplary unauthorized city intervention. The problem, Astoria Scum River, was a pool of filthy stagnant water, caused by a leaky pipe, which had been submerging a busy city pavement for over twenty years causing a hazard to pedestrians. Jason Eppink [...]