public living room

A hull of public space treated as an outdoor room for the entire community, where people feel at home and want to be.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

framework

Hulls of Public Space
associated_with
Coherent, partly enclosed public spaces shaped as solid, positive volumes, each functioning as a public living room for the community.

concept

Public space as the living room of society
related_to
The traditional urban design pattern where streets and squares function as a communal living room for social life

chapter

How Living Process Lays The Groundwork For Coherence Of A City Through The Hulls Of Public Space
introduces
Chapter 3 of A Vision of a Living World, introducing the concept of hulls of public space as positive, living spaces shaped by structure-preserving transformations in urban design.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Public spaceconcept0.800
The realm of streets, squares, and paths that belong to the community, forming the yellow in the four-fold pattern.
Public hall (of public space)concept0.797
The interconnected system of public spaces, walkways, and sitting places that form the living room of the community
rectangular roomconcept0.775
The typical simple shape of a well-functioning room; the starting point for most good rooms.
hierarchy of circulation and living roomsconcept0.761
The structural backbone of an unfolded world: a nested system of movement spaces (streets, paths) and common gathering spaces (hulls) that shape public life.
All parts of the unfolded public space are shaped, fashioned, treated, as if each were a kind of larger living room.claim0.756
Description of the human quality of unfolded public spaces.
Private spaceconcept0.756
Individually owned gardens and building lots that provide personal belonging.
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.claim0.748
Prescribes a spatial rhythm for public space to fulfill its social function
Living centersconcept0.746
Coherent spatial wholes that emerge from living processes; they are the building blocks of environments that foster belonging