Spaces: affordances and encouragement
What do locked up chairs signal? How does this change the desirability of a courtyard? Compare a Raleigh Courtyard to Bryant Park in NYC
Raleigh Courtyard / Alleyway
Here, chairs are locked up on weekends. What if, instead of buying expensive chairs that need to be locked, they bought cheap ones and left them unlocked? How might this change the use of the area? *
Bryant Park in NYC
It’s been said that this park was built around these chairs. When I was up at GEL 08, I hung out in this park for an hour one evening. Providing these chairs to passerbys—without cost!—turned this place into something very inviting.
* Of course, someone would steal them. Humor the idea though.
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