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“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.”

Social Space Cities Policy Healthy Safe Function Aim Democratic Meetings Urges Architect Sustainability Urban Urgent Lively Integrated Democratic Society Planners

Book:Cities for People

Source: Cities for People

“While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.”

Should Made Social Space Media News Embrace Social Media Newspapers Stride

Author:Amy Jo Martin

“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.”

Should Writing Language Social Space Practice Subjects Position Judging Masters Theory Activity Safe Research Discourse Analysts

Author:Roland Barthes

“Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.”

Social Space Effects Design Color Materials Shapes Psychological Volume Technological Requirements Integration

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.”

World Needs Different Social Religious Space Common Existence Groups Conflict Agree Significant Contribution Canada Governance Harmonious Dissension Social Groups Agree Upon

Author:Aga Khan IV

“Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture - it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.”

“All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.”

Kind Political Social Justice Space Struggle Wall Stones Liberation Agendas Testament Ongoing

Book:The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

“It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.”

Done Artist Social Community Space Rooms Design Building Color Pride Taste Spots Gathering Historic Living Room Restoring Bad Taste

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.”

People Thinking Social Space Brain Circuits Autistic Processors

Author:Temple Grandin

“I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.”

Thinking Night Social Space Architecture Constructs Day And Night

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.”

“High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.”

Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.”

Social Space Discipline Organization Distance Series Remarkable Artificial Ghetto Space Between

Book:Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

Source: Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms