Showing posts with label built environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label built environment. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 July 2010

‘Place’ in the shrinking cultural space

(first published in 2004 - but still a timely debate)


The rediscovery and popular debate of our local communities being ‘places’ of diverse and powerful sources of economic, social and environmental solutions is a welcome change. However, in the production of designing ‘places’, are we failing to recognise these embedded resources and commonly deliver a built environment devoid of cultural presence?