Urban playgrounds form a vast, intricate spatial and social network. They are places where material innovation happens and stages for new professional collaborations that carry a wealth of social, spatial, and climate- and nature-positive design potent …

In the third issue of ‘Dirty Furniture
’ on the theme of the toilet, we wonder why poo-bum jokes are funny, lament the loss of the public loo, and stand for girls who stand. Sanitation in India is investigated, toilet paper unrolled, nappies reconsidered, and we interview a farmer and a toilet attendant. With Alex Schweder on pissing, Natalie D Kane on nappies, Alice Twemlow on graphic design, plus shitting monarchs, Superflex, and the poo emoji. 152 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as ‘The Great Gizmo’ to lesser-known texts, such as ‘The Wall’, an intimate confession he penned at the hospital short …