Top Ideas Discussion: Next Steps for the Global Placemaking Movement Imagine if the places where we live were shaped for, and from, our social lives, re-imagined to make it easy for us to gather, shop, have fun, eat together, and be around people different from us. we would collectively have an impact on the health of our planet.
Amenities Have a Seat? How Seating Shapes Welcoming Cities Benches and seating are not objects; they are mirrors to our social behavior. We have seen it time and again, that where there is seating, there is life.
Top Ideas To Save the Planet, Start With the Social Life of Sidewalks Rich street life is no frill. It is an expression of the most ancient function of a city—a place for people to come together, all kinds of people, face-to-face. — William "Holly" Whyte
Sidewalks Who Owns the Corner Defines the Social Life of Neighborhoods You can tell a great city by its corners. If the intersection is owned by the vehicles, it is a city for cars and traffic. If the community controls the intersections/corners, it is a city of neighborhoods.
