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Tag: spaces

Spaces for Social Exchange and Protest

September 6, 2018April 24, 2025

In recent times, the spaces of the cities have become places of protest and places of attack. The fear is that these spaces will become fortified and lead to the reduction in public exchange and erosion of democratic use of spaces to protest. This leads us to the question of how do we design the […]

Posted in Blog, Landscape Architecture, Thinker, WritingTagged protest, social exchange, spaces

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