What makes a great public space?
A study of Washington Square Park in 2005 by the Project for Public Spaces concluded:
“Washington Square Park is one of the best known and best-loved destinations in New York City. And as a neighborhood park and civic gathering place, it may be one of the great public spaces in the world. Anyone who visits the park and who looks at how people use it can confirm in just a few minutes that it has nearly all of the key attributes of a great public space. … Its success can also be measured by other indicators such as the amount of affection that is being displayed, its overall comfort and feeling of being safe, the level of stewardship, and the way that people engage in different activities at very close range and interact with each other easily.”
This leads to only one question : Why is the city putting forth a radical redesign of Washington Square Park, a great public space?
More on this to follow.
March 13, 2008 at 2:51 pm
[...] a new location. 11 trees have been cut down thus far for this folly. As a great public space (see Project for Public Spaces study of Washington Square Park), what is the reason for this outrageous redesign? A responsible budget [...]
March 14, 2008 at 10:42 am
[...] a new location. 11 trees have been cut down thus far for this folly. As a great public space (see Project for Public Spaces study of Washington Square Park), what is the reason for this outrageous [...]
April 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm
[...] Interconnections happen at Washington Square Park in ways that just do not happen in other spaces. That is why it is such a noted, internationally known public space. [...]
May 21, 2008 at 4:47 pm
[...] one morning by a man with an ax because of the misguided whimsy of a city government to redesign a highly functioning public space to better fit in with our CEO Mayor’s “vision” for our city. There’s [...]