EPISODE 112 · THIS WEEK'S GUEST

PRIYANKA
OSEI

An urban planner who spent ten years studying the parks people actually use, rather than the ones that win awards.

She joins Dana this week to talk about accidental good design: a bench, a shortcut and a fountain that nobody asked for.

WHAT THEY COVER

Three places nobody designed

04:12 The accidental bench

Why the best seat in the park is usually a wall at the right height.

18:40 The shortcut that stuck

Worn grass, and the city that finally paved it.

36:05 One useless fountain

Dana's case for a city budget line with no purpose at all.

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Good public space is mostly the city agreeing to stop deciding.

Priyanka Osei · Guest, episode 112

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