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What makes a great urban space? Vitality, activity, scenery, history, car prohibited areas, architecture… It's somewhere you want to be because you don't feel too insignificant in your surrounds. You want to linger there, exploring cozy nooks and taking in the sights, smells and sounds.
Too often as architects and designers we are thinking about designing the perfect building to meet the brief, when the reality is that it is likely to be changed in the future. If we could consider this in the initial design then it would minimize the negative aesthetic effects that these changes could make.