"Can the network of public spaces, streets and squares, parks and lakes, landscapes and rivers, be connected in such a way that ordinary urban citizens become curious about the diversity of the landscape where we live? So that they are eager to discover its tensions and contrasts, between public and secret, between order and labyrinth, between high culture and garden gnomes, between dynamic areas and those that have remained unchanged in human memory, between officially sanctioned beauty and the discovery of the beautiful in the ugly? Can the landscape where we live, in all its functional, socioeconomic, and cultural differentiation, once again be made a legible and livable commonwealth?"
Thomas Sieverts, Where We Live Now
From Where We Live Now: an annotated reader, edited by Matthew Stadler
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