Parks and recreation (and picnics)
The importance and value of shared spaces through commensality, plus reading recommendations for the week
This week's CITY piece is an essay on the importance and value of shared spaces through commensality — namely, eating in parks and at picnics. Written by Apoorva Sripathi for shelf offering, her fortnightly newsletter, it speaks of the history, meaning, and risk of the picnic, in cities where the right to access public space is under threat.
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Although I’ve been part of field trips and school picnics, I didn’t really start picnicking until I moved to London to study in 2018, taking advan…
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