URP500: Images of Public Spaces

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This page is a collection of public space images from Michigan planning graduate students.
Please upload an image (plus your name, image location, image source, and a short caption). Use the link icon to add links. For instructions, see see your class email -- archived on ctools -- for instructions on how to post.)
Consider:
What makes a great (or alternately overrated, misunderstood or problematic) public space? There is a wide range of public spaces, of various sizes and uses, and of varying mixes of public and private use, ownership, control, access. I look forward to seeing a wide variety of images and places (and not just the predictable ones). Identify good public spaces in unusual locations, such as in low density suburbs or poor neighborhoods, or in reclaimed spaces.
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Click on images to see larger image size (high-res photos enabled: Photos without a click-through link will automatically link to a high-res version).

September 17, 2014

Social sofa

Almere (above) & Tilburg (below), The Netherlands

These two photos were both shot in the Netherlands, the first one was in a shopping street in Almere, which is the newest city in the Netherlands, while the other was in Tilburg, the birth place of social sofa.

Social sofa is the concrete bench decorated with unique mosaic pattern, placed in the public spaces, which was designed by a Dutch artist Karin Bruers. It’s not only an invitation for people to interact in the public spaces, but also an artistic means to improve the quality of public spaces.

Weitao Song

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