Outdoor activities: necessary, optional and social activities
Role of planning and the favourable urban environment. When outdoor areas are poor quality, strictly necessary activities occur.
Importance of spontaneous activities (social activities)
Value of meeting, being present in the same place.
The need for stimulation: living in lifeless cities and residential areas, segregation of city functions, create monotonous and dull environments
Why stimulation is important, and interaction with one another?
What are the favorable conditions for stimulation?
1- Quality of public space
2- Common activities
Catalysts for informal contact situations
1- Opening up different ways of exchanges
Ownership and the city
Street safety and its connection to the residents (eyes on the street)
Importance of communities in a city and governance
Importance of diversity
Different activities and economic activities
Visible city life
Self destruction of the city
Governments’ tendency for preferring more profitable economic models
Possibilities for incremental design in slum areas, rather than cleaning-up approach