This year we continued our popular Urban Design Observations series (which has become a bit harder for me to write now that I live on a farm). Here’s a selection of streetside-spotted oddities and improvised solutions from 2018:

Why SoHo Has 19th Century Glass Sidewalks and Stoops

Hacking Cold- and Wet-Weather UX Improvements Onto a Bicycle

Is This Screw-Up the Designer’s Fault or the Contractor’s Fault?

What Exactly are These Pieces of Street Furniture, and How Do They Help Firefighters?

Improvised Truncated Anti-Drunk, Anti-Homeless Front Door

Supermarket Poultry-Based Hilarity

What is This Thing For?

What’s Up With This Bike Lock?

Los Angeles Edition: High & Low in the Hollywood Hills

Los Angeles Edition: More from the Hollywood Hills

San Francisco Edition: Bizarre Public Trash Can

San Francisco Edition: Looking Down

San Francisco Edition: Street Furniture