I saw a really interesting documentary on Bogata, where they achieved social improvement through the opening up of public space and building a series of 'pedestrian highways' across the city in conjunction with reinventing the public transport system. This allowed the people who were living in poverty an alternative environment to their small houses and they started to come outside and this helped to build a city community.
This links closely with the idea behind my project, I am anticipating that in the future when there is (hopefully) less need for petrol stations they can be transformed into spaces for the pedestrian. A combination of the local environment of Vauxhaul which is very anti pedestrian and my thesis which brings up the question of the hostile city, and modern cities being built for cars rather than the real inhabitants.
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