“Democracy Needs Room to Breathe”: Metropolis Magazine

“From reimagining Pennsylvania Avenue to reactivating Franklin Park, David Rubin and his Land Collective Studio are helping Washington, D.C. reclaim its public spaces as open, flexible, and deeply democratic.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steven Mufson’s first article for Metropolis Magazine focuses on Land Collective’s role in redefining civic spacecs in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.  Mufson’s article, “Democracty Needs Room To Breathe”, features completed works Franklin Park, and the World War I Memorial/Pershing Park Renovation, as well as our studio’s ongoing collaboration with the National Capital Planning Commission and associated partners in the redesign of Pennsylvania Avenue.

“If Land Collective’s plan works, the north side can come alive with activities that “can be everything from intimate farmers’ markets to significant events that take up the entirety of the avenue itself,” Rubin said. “What is seen as an abyss in the breadth of the avenue could be seen as much more humane and habitable while still being monumental.””