ABSTRACT
Enhancing connectivity can also be as simple as delineating safe places to cross existing streets, calming traffic down on busy streets, or instituting better pedestrian pathways. To achieve connectivity, planners may focus on the alternative routes and access points that can be created by increasing street connections. The creation of some sort of identity for a diverse place is important, possibly crucial. Identity space provides a way of binding disparate people and places. At the geographic heart of the community, there may be only a commercial corner with little attention to design or its effect on the public realm. Collective space is less about forming an identity and more about finding opportunities for interaction. Using streets as connectors requires reading a streetscape as a habitable space rather than a conduit for moving car. Points of connection should be woven into everyday movement and activity space – like parks, public schools, and libraries.
