What Hanoi learned by tearing down its park fences and opening up to everyone
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Compare and contrast
https://youtube.com/shorts/xMDxRzqpbF0?si=EPC6Z1K8Vhm8i9iA
with
Strictly speaking, the one does not contradict the other, as each chiefly addresses different topics: the unhoused in public spaces on the one hand, public drug use on the other.
Yet a difference in attitude is certainly present here, as well as a difference in the understanding of freedom as a value.
I don't have a pat answer about the "correctness" of either approach. I do know that progressives should be thinking hard about these matters
and be ready for challenging discussion about public space, inclusion, and the justifiability or otherwise of paternalism with regard to housing, drug use, and mental illness.
#PublicSpace #ThirdSpaces #Unhoused #Homeless #DrugUse #Freedom #PoliticalThought #PoliticalPhilosophy #Politics #MentalIllness
Challenger Cities speaks with The Bentway CEO Ilana Altman about how Toronto turned the space beneath the Gardiner Expressway into a vibrant public realm, showing how cities can retrofit active infrastructure without waiting for demolition.
https://challengercities.substack.com/p/challenger-cities-ep72-the-case-for
Listen now | How a space underneath a working highway became one of Toronto's most beloved destinations ... and what that proves about the cities willing to try.
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