What is missing from the perfect summer friend? Generous public spaces Ryan Lucy Coslet

R.Here’s something like a boiled hot summer with an active young child that makes you fully aware of the need for an external space. We are lucky to have a garden, although this is completely inappropriate for the child, so, like many parents, we often depend on the public space to play and get a great deal of exercises he needs. And if you are able to the body, there is nothing like having a child to make you look at the public spaces differently.

Steps instead of stairs. There are no seats to feed a child, or give a small child. No shade. Underestled toilets or changing tables can not be accessed. There is no place to fill a bottle of water. There are no fences or gates that divide the pedestrian space from a crowded road, or a deep -watering group, or countless of the other risks. These are just some things that start with the task. In front of your eyes, the urban environment becomes turned and often is not hospitable. Things like closed stadiums (I look at you, Camden Council – Falkland Place for the literal months of this stage) has been closed to destroy your morning. In a heat wave, broken beam platforms and closed rowing bathrooms (include the latest BRIGHUHUN and Leamington SPA) that special cruelty works.

No wonder, then, that the designated “public” spaces that have become common in all cities, all of which are involved in a specific homogeneity, are to feel attractive. Before I gave birth to a child, the new development in Coal Drops was hated in the King’s Cross in London. He wandered around when he was reopened, I felt cold and definition. This, though, was before people arrived. Now you feel safe, vibrant, and vibrant, full of children screaming with joy while running and getting out of the fountains of the boat boxes. It is a child’s friendly space that is not dominated by the child: from food market to foreign cinema to students who practice dances and drinking tinnitus by the channel, he feels happy.

But in the UK, the actual and friendly public space of the child, instead of the “false and republican space” that was created from private investment, such as the redevelopment of the King’s Cross, is largely a postal code lotion. The first game fountains I faced were at all – in Piccadilla Gardens in Manchester, which were redesigned before the Commonwealth games were in 2002 – it was great, but for years this area calmed down the hostile behavior of society. The redemption promises have stopped due to Budget issues. The city deserves the best.

With increased temperatures, we should look at the continent for inspiration. Although I was hoping that the increasing focus on the public space during the epidemic will lead to more areas that contain outdoor seats and greater investment in external spaces, this has not always been achieved. We may never have the weather, or the national mood, which turns us into this type of society that revolves around Bayza, but the Spanish and Italian models of the public space and how they integrate the children’s play with social communication for adults, such as these beautiful shaded stadiums shaded with bar and cafes that have become very fans, they have become tourists who have become vulnerable to admiration. The phenomenon of social mediaInspiration.

To some extent, it is present in this way because there is a recognition that the middle of the day is very hot for children to play abroad, and thus the evening becomes a time for everyone, with unclear distances between drinking and eating, playing children and practicing children. This has become increasingly the case here too. It seems as if it has become common to see children on the field until very late in the evening, so why don’t you start integrating the urban design around the adults who care about them?

I am not one of those people who think everything is better in other countries. Only today I was reading the comments under a video of Italian children who went late at night in their vehicles while the adults were social. Adults now were thinking about the amount, as children, they didn’t like, how they didn’t really want to play in the square until midnight, only wanted a nice, quiet bed. Certainly, there should be a middle land, which is a public space that meets both adults and children during light evenings that feel safe and comprehensive? After all, the heat waves will only get more and more.