'Public spaces must have a prototypical character; they are instruments of change for a society. They are singular, they create an identity, and they must be able to stimulate the evolution of all kinds of part of a society. The singularness of public spaces remains a key attractor for a variety of people, events, collective expressions, programmes, but what comes out constantly changes, adapts to new trends, forces, desires, and it multiplies in its adaptations over time. The use of a public space proliferates increasingly in the ways that they are used and the ways that they give from to a society and its dynamic mechanisms.'
CHORA / Raoul Bunschoten. Public Spaces. 2002
'The whole city is a plastic experience, a journey through pressures and vacuums, a sequence of exposures and enclosures of constraint and relief.'
Gordon Cullen
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