https://reasonstobecheerful.world/cities-skateboarding-public-spaces/
"Rosa Chang and her husband and son live on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn
Bridge, in an extremely densely-populated urban area — roughly 47,000 people
living within a half-mile radius — sandwiched between downtown Manhattan and
the Lower East Side.
In 2020, when her son was four and the pandemic was in full swing, Chang grew
frustrated that the urban design of their immediate neighborhood was dividing
people, not bringing them together.
“There were all of these separating walls in our community,” Chang says. “There
was not enough public space. Our children were playing between parked cars.”
She was well aware of a huge, nine-acre plot of land under the bridge that had
been fenced off as a construction site and parking lot for more than 10 years,
so she started raising the question at community meetings and around the
neighborhood:
What if we could use that space?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
