Public plazas, faux & real
Richard Risemberg <[email protected]>
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Here's a superb NYT article on how pushing cars out of the way to create pedestrian plazas results in a surge of street life, boosts business, and quashes crime…and how "privately-owned public spaces" grudgingly provided by corporations in exchange for favorable zoning fail entirely:
http://t.co/THqQSGSsQK
Well worth reading!
Rick
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Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://gridlogisticsinc.com
http://www.rickrise.com
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