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To be able to move about easily and confidently, to be able to linger in cities and residential areas, to be able to take pleasure in spaces, buildings, and city life, and to be able to meet and get together with other people – informally or in more organized fashion – these are fundamental to good cities and good building projects today, as in the
... See moreJan Gehl • Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.
Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".
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If the only kinds of city neighborhoods that demonstrate useful functions in real-life self-government are the city as a whole, streets, and districts, then effective neighborhood physical planning for cities should aim at these purposes: First, to foster lively and interesting streets. Second, to make the fabric of these streets as continuous a ne
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Atlantic • Cities Aren’t Built for Kids
Devon Zuegel • We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars
What is that balance? Better to ask: what do humans do? Work, shop, eat, drink, learn, recreate, convene, worship, heal, visit, celebrate, sleep: these are all activities that people should not have to leave downtown to accomplish. While there are exceptions, most large and midsized American downtowns possess a good supply of all of the above excep
... See moreJeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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Kate RAWORTH • La Théorie du donut
Many of these measures draw on an approach called shared space, pioneered by Hans Monderman, a Dutch traffic engineer. In 1968 he designed a residential street in the city of Delft where equal priority is given to cars, bicycles, and pedestrians, forcing road users to pay attention to one another. “When you don’t exactly know who has right of way,
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