The Bentway’s growing Safe in Public Space initiative broadens the definition of public safety, addressing new public health challenges and deep systemic inequities to build a new shared social contract for public space.
Ebti Nabag
Ebti Nabag examines how ideas of safety manifest and are communicated in public space through borders and boundaries, signs and symbols, public space architectures, and delineations.
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Snapshot: Strengthening Climate Resiliency in Public Spaces
In this week’s Snapshot, we focus on the unequal effects the climate crisis has on certain communities, and explore new movements to centre public space as a key tool for building climate resiliency.
Looking Back, Moving Forward: How Public Health Shaped Toronto
In order to understand how COVID-19 will influence Toronto’s future, we first must examine how public health policy established the city as we know it – along unequal lines – argues Bentway Fellow Nahomi Amberber.
Snapshot: Organizing and Protest in Public Space
In this week’s Snapshot, we highlight the different ways movements can engage in protest and why public space acts as the ideal platform.
Stewards: Expressions of Place-keeping with Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook
In our inaugural Stewards piece, we take a deep dive into unpacking and unlearning colonial relationships to the land, as well as their implications for public safety, with Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook (Senior Lead of Indigenous Engagement at Evergreen and Future Cities Canada).