重新装修公共客厅
夏季，城市居民涌向公共领域, 寻找一个社交场所, 考虑, 观察, and relax; almost as if by intuition.
Since the beginning of urbanization, public gathering spaces have been central to civic life. Ancient Greek agoras were the vibrant epicentres of the early metropolis, 作为城市的第一个广场. Differing from other forms of public spaces, such as parks, plazas are generally hardscaped. This allows for flexible programming and use as both political and commercial centres, 欢迎从商人到军人的每一个人.
While cities have always been the convergence for commerce and politics, 直到20世纪20年代，它们都是严重污染和过度拥挤的th 世纪. North American immigration and industrialization brought people to cities by the thousands, erasing all consciousness of the value of public space to wellbeing.
直到20年代末th 世纪 that the qualitative efforts of urbanists like Jane Jacobs, 冬青白, and Fred Kent called attention to the sickly social structure of New York City. Their work has been highly influential in the modernization of urban planning and design initiatives that now place a much larger emphasis on the public realm. 最近的事业，如 时代广场改造 以及著名的出版物，比如 全球公共空间工具包 by UN Habitat have been central to spearheading commitment to promote public life in our cities.
Re-imagining what’s possible at the recently created Vernon/Adanac plaza in Vancouver
随着土地使用成为越来越热门的商品, the development of new plazas tends to fall into one of two categories. The first of these are Privately Owned 公共空间s (POPS) where developers may surpass zoning restrictions by providing public amenities such as plazas. These sites have harnessed stern skepticism in recent years due to their only public(ish) nature. 因为这些空间是私人拥有的, 是谁，交由大楼保安来决定, 当, 以及人们如何使用这些网站, 质疑他们的公共性. 在纽约市，持久性有机污染物占 3.500万平方英尺 “公共空间”的概念，引起了人们对城市权利的关注.
The second common type of plaza development commonly taking place is what I refer to as Resurrection or Transformation Plazas- also known as “Pavement to Plaza” initiatives. These plazas initiate a citizen-centred commitment to the public realm, 恢复道路作为人们的场所. They provide clear opportunities to work alongside the community at all step of the process, 加强邻里关系, 并随着时间的推移，培养宝贵的管理根基.
Neighborhood-innitiated outdoor movie night at the Vernon/Adanac Plaza in Vancouver
These plazas offer the chance to deploy tactical urbanism practices and embrace Asset-Based 社区 Development (ABCD). ABCD embraces the strengths and knowledge of a community and its members, and amplifies the existing resources rather than implementing top-down initiatives. 因为改造广场倾向于选择打火机, 快, 便宜的方法, planners and designers should use this as a platform for community involvement.
When people have the opportunity to participate in a space and actually help in the design, they are more likely to help maintain it as they feel personally invested. 社区成员不仅与市政府工作人员建立关系, 但对他们的邻居也是如此, 有助于管理和更大的归属感. This process also encourages more people to get involved with the space, 因为人们往往会吸引其他人. Transformation plazas offer many opportunities for community involvement including landscaping, 壁画, 马赛克, 甚至给地点命名
While new plazas enhance urban life by contributing to the public realm, urban planners and designers should be open to community participation and deploy publicness within the process itself. If we are going to continue to emphasize the public realm as ‘the public living room’, 它的居民难道不能重新装修吗?
