"To study the city means analyzing the full 360 degrees of reality that surrounds us through both concrete appearances, as well as its impalpable truths: time, memory, need and sentiment.
There are many ways that the frenetic growth of cities has created voids. These are not so much material voids lacking construction but are more the absence of a rapport between people and their context. For example, there are places that one goes to solely for work or solely for fun, places where some go and others do not, and there are places where one feels alien." - Premise for CitizeNations, Cibic & Sharp
Perhaps it would be more helpful to invite the city onto the psychiatrist's couch.
Mental health professionals help their patients understand and let go of the bondage of their past and embrace its richness in order to find and realise their hopes and dreams.
Perhaps the same concept can be applied to the complex issue of cities: by observing human aspects in urbanism, architecture and design, and to attend to the gaps and voids in the cultural landscape by exploring issues of human relevance in a way that allows for meaning and nostalgia, as well freshness and imagination.
The editorial at the Centre for Urban Design & Mental Health, from the "ALONE TOGETHER EDITION" posits "malleable story structures" are intended to help simultaneously inspire the revealing and resolving of city/citizen backgrounds that may contribute to the constraint of different cities' hopes and dreams.
They ask questions that, with imagining, might be answered....
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