Step outside your house and your public life starts.
Public spaces carry the culture of a city. They sit between three things: built and unbuilt space, nature, and people. How those three shape one another decides whether a city is liveable, socially, environmentally, culturally and economically. When growth is driven by the economy alone, it rarely leaves room for the other two. The result shows up everywhere: sprawl, vanishing green space, rivers turned into drains, and a slow drift towards individualism.
What it looks at
- How formal plans, informal networks, political decisions, private development and civic claims shape urban space.
- Conversations with urban planners, anthropologists, architects, transport planners, policy experts and lawyers.
- What road widening, flyovers, encroachment, ecological damage and weak enforcement do to public and green space, mobility and climate resilience.
- How environmental and land-use laws are read, bypassed, selectively enforced, or used by competing interests.
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