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Streets and social life in cities


Life in the City - Carfree Cities

Cities also offer rich social opportunities. People in rural areas enjoy only limited social opportunities because of the small local population. City dwellers ...

Unpacking human activities and the social attributes shaping street ...

Streets are main types of public spaces where multiple social encounters, meetings, gatherings, cultural exchanges, and economic transactions happen among ...

PUBLIC SPACE - UN-Habitat

city, the movement of goods and people, provision of infrastructure, or the setting for community life and livelihoods of the urban poor–e.g. street vendors ...

Biophilic streets: a design framework for creating multiple urban ...

The rediscovery of the social and economic value of streets since the work of Jane Jacobs [3], groups like Project for Public Spaces, and the ...

Streets Shape People - Global Designing Cities Initiative

Human Experience · Safety and Access. People feel more comfortable using safe streets. · Social Interaction. Well-designed streets connect people with their ...

The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces By William Whyte

Whyte's insights originate from the Street Life Project, launched in 1970, which employed direct observation to assess urban settings. The ...

Street Design in India: How Top-Down City Planning Threatens ...

Adopted Spaces: How Social Life on India's Streets is Increasingly Threatened by Top-down City Planning ... In India's bustling cities, time spent ...

Better streets, better cities - ITDP India

vehicles. Street vending and social activities can also take place in the shared space. A narrow driving lane and other traffic calming elements help keep ...

What is Placemaking? - Project for Public Spaces

... streets through the now-famous idea of “eyes on the street,” while Holly Whyte outlined key elements for creating vibrant social life in public spaces.

Social Gathering - re:Streets

Friends met and hung out on the street, children played there, neighbors caught up with each other, and people watched people. This kind of vibrant street life ...

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces | Urban Design Library

Part of a wider research project called The Street Life Project, this book was accompanied by a film of the same name. William H Whyte (WHW) refers to the ...

Social Life: Urban Life | Encyclopedia.com

Streets also served as social spaces among the urban poor, and there one could often find traveling entertainers or tricksters surrounded by their audiences.

Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities - Island Press |

The topic of streets and street design is of compelling interest today as public officials, developers, and community activists seek to reshape urban ...

(PDF) The Street: A Quintessential Social Public Space | Vikas Mehta

Public open spaces can positively contribute to people's quality of life. With the world's growing urban population, especially in developing countries, quality ...

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - Street life Studies

"Holly" Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. In our effort to create and sustain public spaces that build communities, Project for Public Spaces runs.

Social effect of recreational spaces in the cities - Revista Landuum

Since immemorial times, people established their social activities and exchanges in the streets and squares of their community.

‪Vikas Mehta‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Streets and social life in cities: a taxonomy of sociability. V Mehta. Urban Design International 24, 16-37, 2019. 85, 2019. Lively streets: Exploring the ...

Urban streets and social interactions in 'third places' - Ingenta Connect

Researchers argue that there is a relationship between the built environment, social interactions and activities within commercial streets.

[PDF] Sociability vs accessibility urban street life. - Semantic Scholar

This thesis develops a theoretical and practical framework of analysis for measuring the liveliness of urban streets. It studies the inter-related functions ...

The Streets Around Us: Why Urban Planning Matters to Everyone

It influences what social and professional opportunities are close by, how hard it is to get to airports, neighboring cities, or back to our ...


A Tale of Two Cities

Play by Matthew Dunster