Winter 2023: Street Unrest
Contradictions of spatial planning are caused by the time required to process comprehensive and detailed plans as well as (spatial) gap between the two. How to better make sense of planning processes and to alleviate rigidity of the aforementioned?
All pioneering and innovative projects need support to prevent them from getting stuck in the old rut under the pressure of red tape.
Thinking of design as a service means bringing into focus the user and user needs. The impact of user-specificity is steadily increasing in how the processes of spatial design are approached. Ave Habakuk from the Living Street movement writes about how to think of the street as a service.
Spatial design of a city is not a project with a clear beginning and end, but a continuous process, and a wickedly slow one at that.
