Jock Comini Reserve Amenities Kerstin Thompson Architects

The way we design our urban realm, public spaces and amenities is likely to be significantly affected by the current global pandemic. A series of important historical developments in urban planning and management – such as sanitation systems in the mid-nineteenth century – have been responses to infectious diseases. As I’m writing this article, isolated in my apartment during the COVID-19 outbreak, the thought of using any public amenity, let alone a public toilet, screams viral infection (and authorities have temporarily closed down many such facilities for this reason). But, regardless of global pandemics, public restrooms present challenging