Urbanista Lesson #5: Urban Sight: An Irrepressible Instinct

It can be situated on a city, a boulevard, a street, a park, a condo or even just a void space, it is considered an open space. A city square in a city, benches aligned with treescape in a waterfront, a planter in a street, staring at a water-feature or a unique sculpture in a park, a swimming pool or a playground in a condo, and open benches in void decks are all forms of open spaces.

Open space is merely a space where people can identify themselves as part of that said place, a community or even a country specifically. But sometimes all of this can be all taken for granted or even waived when money intervenes. If your goal is “maximizing” everything then there’s a great chance that you’ll only doing it satisfy one sole purpose, to maximize one single pocket.

Open space is for everyone. It is where people can distinguish themselves as a part of a larger group, a community, a country where they can freely live, work and play where they can feel they truly belong.

Again, this is Elsa, encouraging you to make yourself open,open to urban open spaces and now signing off in School of Thoughts!

“Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up.”

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)