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James Kunstler: The Lost of Sense of Place - Coggle Diagram
James Kunstler: The Lost of Sense of Place
Role of the Public Realm.
It isdegrading the civic life equals to degrading the public life
Inform us who we are
Define space is crucial
Public Space
It has to be worth caring about
What is the message that buildings transmit, what are they informing us?
Not civicly rich
Pattern of Buildings in the USA
Retail has to be in the sidewalk
Relation between pedestrian and commerce
Nature is not the remedy for bad urbanism
Street trees: need to be formal
It has created difficult to know between suburban and city
Solution : New Urbanism
Meaningful places = living organisms
Live closer to where you live, work closer
More than the
Sum of its parts
Living locally
Don't say you are consumer
Be a citizen