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Melanie Levitin • 1 card
Oscar Newman’s 1972 book Defensible Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design is widely credited for illustrating how the design of public housing influenced criminal opportunity.18 Newman focused his case studies on NYC public housing complexes, where, he pointed out, robbery rates were much greater in high-rise buildings, even when the actual
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Victor Gruen’s The Heart of Our Cities
Ray Oldenburg • The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
Architecture
Alain de Botton • The Perfect Home
Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…
Daniel Christian Wahldesignforsustainability.medium.com
The OMA group studied desire lines and used them to plan the campus center, unified by a long single roof. The building wasn’t so much a new creation as an observation of extant use: it effectively enclosed the pathways and connections between activities on campus that were already established.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Architecture
FS • 2 cards