Sam Holleran is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and designer. His writing and research on graphic culture, urbanism, and architecture have appeared in Dissent, PRINT, Urban Omnibus, and the Avery Review. He has worked with Design Trust for Public Space, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, and the Chair for Architecture and Urban Design at ETH-Zürich.

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Writing on Public Books
See How The City Divides Us
In New York the preference is for discrete rails or sharply sloped surfaces, in London polished studs do the trick; San Francisco opts for boulders, and Lima has no …
Benidorm After Brexit and the “Burbuja”
In the early 1950s, Mayor Pedro Zaragoza left Benidorm, the sleepy coastal town he governed, to make the 300-mile trip to Madrid by Vespa. He had an audience with General Franco …











