The purpose of architecture and city-building consists in building beautiful, memorable and identifiable places to be comfortably inhabited by human communities, and not to permanently celebrate pain, horror and trauma in fixed settings of discomfort and despair! Architecture is about building and dwelling, about healing and nurturing, about place and time.

Ed Mazria, Architecture 2030 Challenge, 2007

Embodied Memory and Time-Tested Sustainability

Letchworth Garden-City 20th Century Letchworth Sustainable, 21st Century

• Integrazione sociale e policentrismo

• Servizi e funzioni miste

• Limiti ben definiti

• Spazi pubblici diffusi e attrezzati

• Facilità di movimento a piedi

• Trasporti pubblici

• Piccoli e Medi negozi per supporto i residenti

• Densità corretta

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