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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September 17, 2014

In the heart of Detroit lays Campus Martius Park.

This public space represents August Woodward’s focal point of the City.

Campus Martius is activated in numerous different ways throughout the year to ensure public participation and usage.

During the summer months, part of the park is filled with sand and beach chairs as well as a full bar. Music plays from the numerous speakers throughout the park and the working people of Downtown Detroit flock to the park to enjoy lunch or drinks after work.

In the winter months, the City of Detroit builds a full ice rink in the heart of the park. With that, they place a massive Christmas Tree in the park for tourists and Metro Detroiters to come and see.

Source for Campus Martius Winter:

http://blog.thedetroithub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1402064_10151769458151130_832609452_o-650x400.jpg

Source for Campus Martius Summer:

http://www.pps.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DETslides_09.jpg

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