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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Stewards: Community Gardens as Safe Havens with Traci Nottingham, Sheryll Durrant and Katie German
The Bentway The Bentway

Stewards: Community Gardens as Safe Havens with Traci Nottingham, Sheryll Durrant and Katie German

In this week’s Stewards piece, we speak with Traci Nottingham, Gardener at Prospect Heights Community Farm in Brooklyn, New York; Sheryll Durrant, Garden Manager at Kelly Street Garden in the Bronx, New York; and Katie German, Director of Programs at FoodShare Toronto, who highlighted the ability of community gardens to serve as “safe havens” in cities.

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Health, Housing, and the Supporting Role of Public Space
Snapshot The Bentway Snapshot The Bentway

Health, Housing, and the Supporting Role of Public Space

In this week’s Snapshot, we dive deeper into the interplay between housing and health as it relates to the complex issue of homelessness, while assessing the role that public spaces are playing (or can play in the future) in supporting the health, safety, and well-being of the people who are affected.

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Photo of the Week
Photo Essay Ebti Nabag Photo Essay Ebti Nabag

Photo of the Week

Ebti Nabag travels beyond The Bentway to examine 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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New Monuments for New Cities
The Bentway The Bentway

New Monuments for New Cities

New Monuments for New Cities was a 2019 collaboration between five members of the High Line Network, who each invited five local artists to create proposals for new monuments for a 21st century city. A year later, New Monuments for New Cities still reflects the ongoing social and political circumstances of this moment by confronting controversial public monuments and the safety risks they pose.

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Snapshot: Reflected in Public Space - Reimagining Monuments & Place Names
Kris Kinsey Kris Kinsey

Snapshot: Reflected in Public Space - Reimagining Monuments & Place Names

As monuments and place names are confronted, there is an opportunity to reflect shifting values by reimagining the symbols we use to signal whose legacies and presence we choose to protect in the public realm. In this week’s Snapshot, we highlight some recent efforts to take stock of and reimagine existing monuments, alongside approaches to introduce completely new forms of symbols in public spaces.

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Audio Tour: The Bentway
Lara Samuel Lara Samuel

Audio Tour: The Bentway

The Bentway’s Manager of Facilities & Visitor Experience, Lara Samuel, takes you on a virtual walking tour of our space, sharing site-specific insights, safety considerations and personal stories.

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