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Urban Anthropologist Looks At People And Public Spaces

Posted by: Nate Berg

3 October 2007 - 8:00am

This article from The New York Times briefly profiles Project for Public Spaces Founder Fred Kent, and presents his appraisals of four New York neighborhoods.

“'When a place makes people really happy, really comfortable,' he said, 'they start touching each other.'”

"He should know. An affable, boyish native of Andover, Mass., Mr. Kent, 64, is an urban anthropologist and space doctor, and as founder of the Project for Public Spaces, a 32-year-old nonprofit group with offices near Washington Square Park, he spends his days observing homo sapiens in one of its favorite habitats: cities."

See Kent's neighborhood appraisals linked below.

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Source: The New York Times, September 30, 2007
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One great asset of this part of town, and other older neighborhoods across America, is something as simple as sidewalks, which make it easier to break out of your private sphere by taking a walk and talking to neighbors. That's an impossible dream in many new subdivisions.
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