Charles Landry has written about we should plan our cities around emotions. This is effectively our argument, yet we dig down a bit deeper to aim to understand why our physical enviroment makes us feel a particular way. I found this quote by him earlier today:
‘We never look at cities through emotion and lived experience, and that’s important. When you go into the city is it saying yes or is it saying no? Ashphalt for example says no….’' My first impression of Perth is of the city saying ‘no’ - there are red lights everywhere,
Find more at: http://www.outinperth.com/index.php/reviews/art/creative-thinker-in-residence-charles-landry?date=2007-10-17
I think he may be an interesting person to get in touch with, whether that means inviting to the seminar, or simply sending him our paper and outline of our research.
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