[sustran] The Challenge of Social Spaces

[eric britton]

Would you like to help with this?

I would love to see a map of a city, perhaps your city, which is color coded
to show what we call "social space".  Examples would include of course
things like parks large and small, pedestrian zones, streets where traffic
is so slow that people have the definite priority, bikeable streets and
paths, recuperated public spaces, and other parts of the city in which
people can meet, walk, talk, gawk, play, buy and sell, offer services, etc.
freely and in safety. 

The map could be lightly done and does not have to be authoritative. But is
does have to give a fair idea of the state of these special spaces in your
city.

I am working on this in support of an open program with the CfM team
entitled The Challenge of Social Spaces, which I believe is taking some
original approaches and ideas . It may not be enough to save the world or
your city, but it is, I sincerely believe, a path worth pursuing. So thanks
if you have any thoughts on this, and if you wish to see more, please get in
touch.

Eric Britton

PS. There are of course public spaces which are not social spaces, for all
sorts of reasons.  Nor does anything keep me as a land owner from turning
all or some part of the land I own into a genuine social space.  (Brings up
some interesting questions, like is a shopping mall really a social space?
And others.   Worth thinking about.)

 

 

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