Showing posts with label place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label place. 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?