Where the Sidewalk Continues: Using Shared Space to Bridge Social Life Across Intersections
Implementing shared space at intersections can transform them from car-centric wastelands into vibrant gathering places for the community.
Great Public Spaces59
There is nothing like the thrill that one gets when they go to a great place again and again. Great places are addictive dwell in your memory, often emerging to cheer you up and give you incentive to go back or just explore in your mind the pleasures you had or what you might have missed. They can be in your community/neighborhood at a corner cafe, a special store or park. Often they are right in front of our noses if we will just look.
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