Taking Risks with Urban Design

"The outdoor plaza, like so many public places these days, was a grey, forbidding expanse of dull concrete, potted trees, lumpy sculpture and interlocking bricks. The modern buildings around it were nice enough, but the place in between was devoid of people and full of vague fear. You didn't want to hang out in it, or even walk through it. So the good burghers of Rotterdam did what any decent municipal officials should do: They made it as scary as hell."

Thanks to Michael Dudley