PUBLIC SPACE / VOL. 02

Make room
for the ordinary.

A print-minded journal about streets, squares, brick, and the public life held between buildings.

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Brick Lane arch and brick buildings on a London street
Brick Lane, London
Photo: Robert Lamb · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
02—01PLACE / POLICY / DETAIL

A public space is more than its centre.

Edges, routes, and the small permissions of a place decide whether a square feels shared. The National Design Guide gives that everyday work a clear vocabulary.

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BRICK / 02

What a wall lets through

Brick is pattern, weight, and a way to make a boundary feel inhabited.

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INDEX / 02

Two notes on common ground

A compact issue of public-space writing, set in type and red oxide.

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