Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
‘streets constitute the vast majority of public space in a city’. Visit some parts of the world, and you’ll routinely see streets as places for play, conversation, chess, dominoes, singing and dancing, sleeping. Enrique Peñalosa, a former mayor of Bogotá, believes that children playing in the street are actually an ‘indicator species’ for the well-
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
“The density is what comes with [inner-city living] and what density means for me on a day-to-day basis is cups of tea at 9:30pm without planning. It’s spontaneity of social life. I don’t have to plan to catch up with friends. Friends with kids can put their kids to bed and we can go and hang out with them with no plans. So I have a life that is le... See more
274 / In search of the adult version of ‘playing freely on the street’
‘The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building, a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows.’12
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Intricacy is related to the variety of reasons for which people come to neighborhood parks. Even the same person comes for different reasons at different times; sometimes to sit tiredly, sometimes to play or to watch a game, sometimes to read or work, sometimes to show off, sometimes to fall in love, sometimes to keep an appointment, sometimes to s
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