Successful City Building
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| Mayor of Vaughan City |
Vaughan, Canada
He constantly mentioned that human connection helps to make a city work. Despite the stats and information of the city is given to him when he first started off, he felt empty. What does this information mean? Dream, build, make things real. He then went on to study the senses, as stated by him sensory based planning. It is important to observe the surroundings, the human experience and feelings is the most important. The human connection is the thing that makes the city vibrant, working. Developments in cities worldwide cant work out because they lack human connection. People need to be engaged and a part of it. They seek connection with the society, they need the sense of belonging in the city. Many developers forget about the connections, they just build buildings, spaces and no sense of collective purposes. A good city makes is people feel like they are one. Manifesting the collective, promoting what's important to self that can embrace the community. One thing he also mentioned which I would strongly agree to is that engaging people is important, the lack of engagement makes people feel unfamiliar, cold. While planning a city, designers need to study why people are happy in some neighborhoods but not others, what people feel in their spaces.
Spirit of humanity = ideal citizenship
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