William H. Whyte started his research on public spaces in New York City for seven years. He found a big decline in the uses of most public spaces. His researches lead to the "rules for small urban spaces," which rules were used by the Planning Department. He also fears that the effect of unused public spaces are the results of privatization, commercialization and a deliberate program for the users.
Our fears of terrorist and personal bias are also reason for unused public spaces. Our fears and safety has made us give us our civil liberty. Now, we want to live in gated and well surveillance areas. The high increase in law enforcement and retinal-scanning technologies to detract terrorist is costing more than just money, it costing us our freedom and social diversity.
Anthologies has done so much research and had come up with so many theories keep pubic spaces in regular used by diversity social group for democratic behavior and gathering. Seth Low founded the Public Space Research Group, which has done lots of study on urban parks and it uses.
It talks about all the benefit of park and public spaces, however it don’t mention any of the dangers. Lots of park is gang territory. Such public spaces are where lots of drug dealing happens. It is true we should take back our public space and be in diversity but I don't blame those who don't indulge in it.
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