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Places that work: how do we create social spaces in our cities?
What’s the place of public space? What’s the big idea behind public art? Which streets, parks, malls and precincts draw us to them? How can a city welcome us? Can active streets inspire creativity and entrepreneurial ingenuity? Some of the projects and ideas up for discussion this month.
Competition: Show Us Your City
Calling urban dwellers: we want to experience your world. Take us on a journey through the streets and social spaces of your neighbourhood. Show us your city and you’ll be in the running to win a trip to the 2010 London Festival of Architecture.
They walk among us, documenting movement and trends, noticing art and accidental moments of beauty. They’re neighbourhood bloggers. Do you have one?
Have you noticed a “geography of blandness” and death of diversity in your city? How can we maintain a unique local identity and visual vocabulary as our cities move towards a global city ideal?
As possibly the most contrived and controlled built environments possible, airports are rather surreal places… a perfect habitat for transparent floating balloon people?
Shoppers stop and stare. There’s confusion, surprise and delight. They watch on the big screen as an enormous hand darts out and squashes a fellow shopper down to half their size…
What message would a city send with benches that play your favourite music, bins that roam around and chairs you can move? We explore big ideas that arise from the smallest details in social spaces.
A leader in the city-making movement, Landry defines creative cities as “places where you can think, plan and act with imagination”, and discusses how to unleash the creative potential of a city.
