Growing the Future City, our exhibition at Foyles Gallery in partnership with Grimshaw architects reaches its halfway stage this week, and it’s time for our weekly call for ideas. This week’s question:
How do we adapt to living and working in a denser city?
Tweet your ideas to @futurecityblog using the #growingmycity and #working hashtags. We’ll add them to the wall at Foyles on your behalf (yes, we make our way over there several times a week) and feature them in our end-of-show roundup.
Some suggestions from the public so far:
“Make 15 minutes of ‘mindfulness’ a part of every school day and workplace environment”
“Welcome and encourage diversity – create reasons for people to work and share leisure time within their community”
“Encourage cooperation and chit-chat – love seats all over!”
Need more inspiration? Check out this article by Ed Glaeser on the benefits of density, published by LSECities – explains: “Dense cities offer a means of living that involves less driving and smaller homes to heat and cool.” Counter-arguments support the idea that suburbs, not megacities, will be the future: “….bigger might no longer mean better. The most advantaged city of the future could well turn out to be a much smaller one.”
What is your personal take on the issue of density? Let us know.