I fear the day that parks, which are the epitome of public space, come to mean “safe” in the way that suburban shopping malls are viewed as safe – because of their sterility and exclusion of certain social classes. […]
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The way we treat the stranger is of crucial importance to the way we live our lives as moral and ethical people part of a world beyond ourselves. Jane Jacobs, in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, discusses the importance of different types of diversity in […]