Problems with Public Spaces

Public spaces have much potential to succeed or fail at organizing and bringing the community together. Common reasons why many public spaces have failed to really energize and connect community members are these following reasons:
    *Lack of places to sit
    *Lack of gathering points
    *Poor entrances and visually inaccessible spaces
    *Dysfunctional features
    *Paths that don't go where people want them to go
    *Domination of a space by vehicles
    *Blank walls or dead zones around the edges of a place
    *Inconveniently located transit stops

Convenience and accessibility serve the needs of the community and are vital to success of public space.

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Why public spaces fail