Considerate Urbanism seeks to transition from car based urbanism to care-based urbanism and bring more human kind urban experiences and lifestyles for everyone. In this episode Liane Hartley and Holly Harrington talk about putting care as the basis of our urban paradigm: care for people, society and our communities. Care for our built and natural environment. Care for our future. Care for urban life and about how people need and want to live. Care for making urban the solution for meeting the big challenges we face and not the problem.
The concept of "care" is increasingly influencing urban planning and design, aiming to make cities more inclusive, equitable, and responsive to the well-being of their residents. This shift toward taking a care lens acknowledges the interconnectedness of culture, economy, space, health, and planning. This is needed because we have separated and compartmentalised the city and the human for too long.
The episode explores whether we have a culture of demolition and a problem with fast development, and what kind of legacy we leave as a society and a culture with this approach. Recognising that poor quality physical environments are known to affect our health, our wellbeing, our sense of safety, our self-esteem, our community cohesion, our life chances; care for our built environment translates to care for our social environment. Perhaps we need a Commission for Care to help us embed some of these issues and solutions systemically and across the built environment and address this care deficit?
The episode references this Bloomberg 2021 article: What ‘Care’ Means in Design, Planning and Architecture - Bloomberg
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