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claim:it-does-not-have-to-do-with-density-it-has-to-do-with-whether-there-is-a-general-understanding-by-people-who-build-and-who-pay-for-buildings-that-the-public-space-needs-to-be-made-usable

It does not have to do with density. It has to do with whether there is a general understanding by people who build and who pay for buildings, that the public space needs to be made usable.

Refutes the density excuse, placing responsibility on shared intention and understanding

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The public space needs to be made usable, every fifty feet a useful and beautiful place to be, and actually to be the living room of your society.claim0.801
Prescribes a spatial rhythm for public space to fulfill its social function
The public space, created first as an offshoot from acts of individual occupancy forming private houses, quickly became a thing that many people together cared for and shaped.claim0.790
Describes the emergent genesis of public space from private acts, not top-down planning
In any urban neighborhood, creation of public space and private space, with a proper relationship between the two, is the critical issue.claim0.784
Key claim establishing the importance of balancing public and private realms.
The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.782
If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
The public has been much in favour of the building because the Visitor Centre has the sort of easy familiarity that non-architects understand more readily.claim0.781
Observation contrasting public approval with specialist scepticism.
IT IS THE LAND WHICH MATTERS. The purpose of the buildings is to bring life to the land.claim0.777
The building volumes are merely tools; the land and its space, as activated, are what really matter.
The public hall of public space is probably best done by the builders with the help and cooperation of individual families and businessesclaim0.774
A practical conclusion about how to create the public realm after a vision is established
A system of hulls of public space will inevitably be created by the unfolding of a living process, if it is truly living and truly allowed to unfold.claim0.772
The inevitability of hulls as the outcome of living process.