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>City planning has little to do with loneliness. >If a city council wants to combat loneliness they should provide its citizens with public spaces where they c
by ruytlm 8y ago
>City planning has little to do with loneliness.
>If a city council wants to combat loneliness they should provide its citizens with public spaces where they can organize non-profit meetups for free.
For those spaces to be provided, they need to be incorporated into the council's city/urban planning.
- INTPenis 8y agoBut that has nothing to do with design. This article is about design concepts. A city merely has to earmark or promote the use of locations as public spaces. The design has little to do with it. Yes it is city planning but it's not designing.
- ruytlm 8y agoForm and function here are fundamentally interrelated. How you design your public spaces affects how effectively they can be used. A good public space should not only be well planned, but also appealingly designed, in order to attract users. Consider a library. If designed well, it can use its street frontage to give views in through windows to show activities taking place, and make it clear to passers-by that they are welcome to come in and use the space. If designed poorly, it could have a sheer concrete street frontage with no views inside, that obscures what the space can be used for, or even what spaces may exist inside.