Monthly Focus: Social Spaces

This theme re-phrases public space as “social space”, highlighting the potential for all kinds of spaces to act as venues for interaction between city dwellers, and drawing attention to what is important about public space

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Who’s your neighbourhood blogger?
Who’s your neighbourhood blogger?

They walk among us, doc­u­ment­ing move­ment and trends, noti­cing art and acci­dental moments of beauty. They’re neigh­bour­hood blog­gers. Do you have one?

Charles Landry on the Geography of Blandness
Charles Landry on the Geography of Blandness

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?

Now boarding: transformations in transit
Now boarding: transformations in transit

As pos­sibly the most con­trived and con­trolled built envir­on­ments pos­sible, air­ports are rather sur­real places… a per­fect hab­itat for trans­par­ent float­ing bal­loon people?

Look up: here comes the Hand from Above
Look up: here comes the Hand from Above

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…

Bins and benches: small details and big ideas
Bins and benches: small details and big ideas

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.

Charles Landry: What is a Creative City?
Charles Landry: What is a Creative City?

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.