Designing the Compassionate City

Download or read book Designing the Compassionate City written by Jenny Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Human needs -- Embedding and receiving the messages in the urban environment -- What makes a place nurturing or neglectful? -- Living in the compassionate city -- Play quarters, london -- Benches collective, various locations in the Netherlands and overseas -- Tower hamlets cemetery park, london -- De ceuvel, Amsterdam -- Woonerven, Netherlands and overseas -- Christie Walk, Adelaide -- The secular pilgrimage and South Melbourne Commons, Melbourne -- Stewartstown Road Centre, Belfast -- UN habitat placemaking projects in West Bank villages, palestine -- The obstacles and pitfalls to creating places where people thrive -- Designing the compassionate city -- Applying compassionate city principles -- Conclusions