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Public spaces and environments in America need renovation - Coggle Diagram
Public spaces and environments in America need renovation
Project of civilization
Misallocation of resources generated
Places not worth caring about
Places of quality
(architecture)
Inform us on
who we are in culture
and on the
direction where we're going
Degrade of public space
Degrade of life
We need to DEFINE spaces
A
good public space
is "PERMEABLE"
Shops, restaurants, people going in and out
This is normal in other cultures
A
failing public space
Has no "personality"
is
amorphous
Does NOT communicate anything
SUBURBS
destroyed
the understanding of the distinction between country and town
to drag the country into the city is not a
After WWII, mid 19th century
The Industrial City idea
The original idea mutated in the following years
it hasn't delivered what was promised
These cause
anxiety and depression
in children
"Benefits of the city living in the countryside"
FUTURE
- living locally
We need to
Downscale
Rescale
Resize
Everything we do
Redesigning places
Streets, block, courtyards, civic squares
We have to change our behavior
by living closer to where we work
by living closer to each other
by growing food closer to our houses
Consumers are different from
citizens