“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.” SocialSpaceCitiesPolicyHealthySafeFunctionAimDemocraticMeetingsUrgesArchitectSustainabilityUrbanUrgentLivelyIntegratedDemocratic SocietyPlanners Book:Cities for People Source: Cities for People
“In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.” PeopleWorldHappensSocialWorstSafeShotsWesternInsultRudeWorst ThingsStarvingWestern WorldFauxFaux Pas Author:Ricky Gervais
“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.” ShouldWritingLanguageSocialSpacePracticeSubjectsPositionJudgingMastersTheoryActivitySafeResearchDiscourseAnalysts Author:Roland Barthes
“Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.” WellsLawYoungGirlOpportunitySocialNaturalPleasurePowerSupportGreaterConditionsHonestSafeAverageSeekingProtectionEnjoymentOccupationExposedTrafficWomanhoodProstitutionAbolishLivelihoodSeducingLiving WageGreater PowerHarpies Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.” MayEnoughSocialLevelsRevolutionSafeToughBuiltStructureDemocraticDuesResistanceCompromiseDamageTensionFlexibilityTechno Author:Theodore Kaczynski
“Having someone in your class call you fat, ugly, too tall and so on, you start to think all those things about yourself. And if you're like me, those words are played on repeat inside your head. When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them. Now we have so many more social outlets, there are so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account, just be yourself. Be who you want to be.” IfsThinkingWayWantFeelsPlayHomeSocialFeltClassToo MuchMediaHavensSafeAccountsUglySocial MediaHandleLike MeFatsRepeatsBeing YourselfTallAbout YourselfMy SisterOutletsBulliedJust Be YourselfSafe Haven Author:Khloe Kardashian
“We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe.” MeanEndsEnoughFactsTogetherOpportunityLeftSocialBehindsDemocracyGrowingWallSafeConsequenceAccountsUnityHungerProtectionHolesObligationBoatOur FamilyGatesLinksLeft BehindBank Accounts Book:Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People Source: Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People
“One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.” IfsAmericaArtistOrderCultureHouseSocialPoorSafeStudiosArtisticNeighborhoodParadoxCracksIntegrationSegregationVigorousIntriguingColonySocial OrderBohemianSafe PlacesRacial Segregation Author:Florence King