DIVERCITY + BELONGING IN THE CITY
Excerpt from the Centre for Urban Design & Mental Health
"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
In looking at the city, it is imperative to look at the people.
In the good city, diversity offers stimulating variety without becoming chaotic.
The good city allows for belonging, a place to be oneself, while also allowing community – a place to care for others, to not be self-confined.
It is this balance that creates rich living. And yet, in many cities, people find themselves with others but alone.
These cities are often conflicted: constrained by their own nostalgia and history, yet in seeking to move forward, surrendering their essence, the old being thrown away for the latest technological advances.
In this complex interplay of the city's past, present and future, we seek meaning and fulfillment.
Architecture, Design, Humanity, Mental Health, Behavioral Health, HealthCare Matters
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