The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
Ray Oldenburgamazon.com
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
The preferred and ubiquitous mode of urban development is hostile to both walking and talking. In walking, people become part of their terrain; they meet others; they become custodians of their neighborhoods. In talking, people get to know one another; they find and create their common interests and realize the collective abilities essential to com
... See moreVictor Gruen’s The Heart of Our Cities
citizen participation in planning and well understands that that can happen only at the neighborhood level.
Wolf Von Eckardt entitled Back to the Drawing Board.
Phillipe Ariès’ paper entitled “The Family and the City,”
Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Bernard Rudofsky’s Streets for People;