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http://www.newgeography.com/content/00943-online-neighborhood-the-front-porch-forum
This group was created to celebrate outdoor cafes! Cafes offer a place to sit down and relax, a place to see and be seen, a place to meet friends, and add a sense of life and excitement to any public space! So please enjoy and discuss!
I would use our "Place Evaluation" form and lead some small group exercises using it as a way to evaluate the of particular places, but also how to improve the given place. Then you will have benchmarks to go back to as the place improves.
Fred Ke...
What are the best transit system or extraordinary Routes and how do they work as essential for local users and tourists
What are the best transit system or extraordinary Routes and how do they work as essential for local users and tourists
What a nice article -- good for the NYT for helping to share this local story. Seems like Fleming embodied the essence of Jane Jacobs' "public character" -- someone whose presence and constant contact with the public helps to create social structu...
See the following new article on Playborhood.com:
Front Porches Make a Comeback - Will Neighborhood Socializing Follow?
Until the last few decades, front porches and stoops were the fertile breeding grounds of American neighborhood life. When th...
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- What is your favorite public space?
- The New York city Subway on a Saturday late morning. I have always wanted to take all the people on one car and ask them who their grandparents were, where they were from and what they did. The entire world would be covered in one Subway car. I particularly like the "F" train because that is what I use every day
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- Project for Public Spaces
- What is your organization's web address?
- http://www.pps.org
Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 5:27am on January 13, 2009,
Anne Goodall said… - Hi Fred. All is good here, thanks. Happy to join the group as it will provide a focus for me thinking more about how these places work in Perth. Backyards are a big part of the culture in Australia and I think that's part of why people tend to use front yards very little. We have a family with young people who live next door who use their front yard as a play space and it means neighbours stop and chat, etc. It's great.
- At 6:43am on December 26, 2008,
Fred Kent said…
- Kathy and her sister have a condo which they inherited from their father.
- At 1:10am on December 26, 2008,
Jason Feldman said…
- Welcome to you both! What brings you to Delray Beach?
- At 8:32am on December 2, 2008,
Peter Skosey said… - i thought the map would fool people into thinking i really knew what i was talking about. I'll search for something that represents my inner self...maybe a bottle of wine? I'll work on it.
- At 2:24pm on November 15, 2008,
Robin Lester said…
- Your post to this group is great. I may use it as a blog post for you!
- At 2:09pm on November 15, 2008,
Michael Rosenkrantz said… - Thanks Fred, I appreciate that. I didn't put up all my photos because they are on various CD's in storage. I have some great pics that I took of markets in India. I think that I combine my love of markets with just snapping pics, which I also really like to do. Thanks again for your kind words. Mike
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