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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Designing a More Inclusive City

Strategies for exclusion are not so dissimilar to strategies for inclusion. Everywhere you look the built environment is whispering what it wants from you, how to behave and how to feel. This isn't good or bad but like all things should be conscientious and favor all over the few. 

VIA: NY TIMES

In the 1990s, San Francisco removed all of the benches from Civic Center Plaza. In 2001, all remaining seating in nearby United Nations Plaza was removed in the middle of the night. Over the years, public seating has been removed from virtually the entire city. While this anti-homelessness strategy has given way a little with the emergence of the city’s many parklets, it’s still in full effect. More [HERE]

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