Comments on: 7 Ways to Disrupt Your Public Space

By: Project for Public Spaces | Best of the Blog: Top 12 PPS Posts of 2012

Project for Public Spaces | Best of the Blog: Top 12 PPS Posts of 2012 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:02:08 +0000

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By: Andrew Hammonds

Andrew Hammonds — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:03:00 +0000

If you want to double the amount of people in a place encourage them to loiter – create linger nodes.

By: Andrew Hammonds

Andrew Hammonds — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:02:00 +0000

My heart likes the confronting and ‘dangerous’ nature of “7 Ways to Disrupt Your Public Space”. I support enabling users to create places. Yet a lot of places transformed like NYC already have good ‘urban design bones’. My head is concerned about the new places we create in the suburbs. These would generally benefit from sound principles of urban design and placemaking. We need to understand the rules before we challenge them. We also need to take stakeholders in government and development on a journey – without being too confrontational?

By: BuffaloBarbara

BuffaloBarbara — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:11:00 +0000

Oh, I forgot about that. Yes, heavens forfend. Of course, it’s in a part of town where it’s too hard for the homeless to get there, anyway. (It’s in a quickly established area–I can’t call it a neighborhood; and no, despite my name, it’s not in Buffalo, which has a fabulous park system–where walled off subdivisions are occasionally interrupted by busy streets the width of freeways. And the real estate ads tout this “access” to busy streets as a huge plus. I’m missing something somewhere.)

By: RAS

RAS — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:45:00 +0000

they probably are trying to do just that. god forbid a homeless person might come and sit in the park…

By: BuffaloBarbara

BuffaloBarbara — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:23:00 +0000

These are very good, but sometimes devilishly hard to get people to pay attention to. Some very simple things I can think of in a very large park around where I work–tables with sun shades. There is not a single place to sit in the whole park, and the only two bits of it that are used are the defined function playground and dog-run areas. There are no vendors, no benches… nothing. It’s an entirely pointless park. There is a single, ratty picnic table up near my building (built with staff in mind), and people are always sitting there, even though it has no shade and is ugly and in full view of the staff room because there is no other place to sit. It’s almost like they’re *trying* to make sure that they don’t have “loiterers.”

By: Making Better Spaces and Making a Difference | (pro(vo)cation)

Making Better Spaces and Making a Difference | (pro(vo)cation) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:11:43 +0000

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By: Robert Kean

Robert Kean — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:32:00 +0000

A good example of this is a project we were involved with in Cincinnati- Washington Park. It was jointly funded by public and private development and restored a park in an old neighborhood. A parking structure was put beneath the park. Play areas and performance spaces with plenty of walkways and seating areas. It conflicts with inexpensive and simple but the joint funding made it possible. Here’s a blog article for anyone interested
http://www.milestoneimports.com/company/blog/bid/56588/Porphyry-and-High-Praise-for-Cincinnati-s-Washington-Park