Tag Archive for: Urban Public Space

Why developing a literacy of graffiti and street art is important

If you see or interpret graffiti and street art only through…

Urban Street Ethnography Interruptus

Every semester, for almost a decade, I close out the term, by…

Should people who didn’t follow the CDC guidelines to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 be given priority for treatment in overflowing and understaffed hospitals?

One of the most important pressing moral questions of our time,…

Enabling new ways of using urban pubic space during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shortly after the spring COVID-19 lockdown, my neighborhood in…

Rebel without a clause: The trouble with copyright and trademarks in connection with graffiti and street art

Last week, Banksy, the elusive British street artist, or more…