module 6
Outdoors and Open Ground
Outdoors and open ground — parks, benches, dog parks, farmers markets, and the year-round weather problem.
10 articles
- 1
Parks as third places
A place near you where nobody is expecting you — and that's the whole point.
- 2
The bench, underrated
A piece of public furniture that asks nothing of you — and gives you a place to belong.
- 3
Dog parks
where the dog makes the introduction and the gate keeps no score
- 4
The trail regulars
A kind of belonging that asks nothing of you except showing up.
- 5
Playgrounds, for the parents
You went for the kid. You stayed for the accidental company.
- 6
Beaches, piers, and boardwalks
How the edge of the water became the easiest place in the world to belong.
- 7
Farmers markets
The most welcoming public room in town might be one that only exists five hours a week.
- 8
The stoop, the porch, the front yard
A chair twenty feet from the back door to the front can change a block.
- 9
Weather, and the year-round problem
A bench goes wet, a crowd thins to four, and you wonder if you lost something. You didn't.
- 10
Public space in a hot climate
A hot city doesn't lose its public life. It reschedules it.
