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What Parades and Toilets Reveal About Planning for Public Space

“Searching for Superpublics,” an exhibit at New York’s Center for Architecture, considers how super-sized events such as marathons reveal the underlying infrastructure of public space.

A map for workshopping new ideas for public space, on view at the Center for Architecture in New York.

Photographer: Asya Gorovits

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