DIAGNOSIS OF CITY SPACE

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Our most fundamental reaction to all city space, is our reaction to its positiveness, our assessment of whether it is living space or not. Simply put, in those spaces which are living, we feel alive, and we want to protect them. In those spaces which are not living, we feel more deadened, and want to improve them, or correct them or modify them, to make them more living.

	Here pedestrians and cars are both OK. The space is positive, it needs little or nothing doing to it.	This space is not positive. A person, on foot, or in a car, is less alive in this place. Given the opportunity, the place needs to be modified.

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