The unexplored culture of street furniture (from public infrastructure to makeshift seating) is at the heart of Edwin Heathcote’s ‘On the Street’
The history of street furniture and public infrastructure is the topic of a new book by architecture writer Edwin Heathcote. Titled, the tome is an encyclopaedic view of everything that happens in the public realm, from structures designed to host advertising to balustrades, from traffic lights to benches. Divided into topical chapters with informative and humorous names , the book aims at charting a history of what Heathcote calls ‘the in-between architecture’.
However, he observes how these objects and structures are often more enduring than the buildings themselves, and relate more closely to the human experience of cities and public spaces.The nature of the book results in a mix of eras being represented within its pages, mixing history and contemporary objects.
‘This book was mostly written during the strange period of the Covid-19 epidemic and, through lockdowns and the officially sanctioned walks,’ he notes, ‘I tried to look again at this layer of stuff. It gave me something to do on otherwise interminably repetitive exercise strolls. But it also allowed me the time and space to see and to find things that were, in their own ways, wonderful.
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