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Technology, people, space and place

Technology is redefining the way that placemakers can define and evaluate spaces and places. RUDI's afternoon debate in London, on April 29 2008, will bring together an interested audience to discuss and work through the initiatives and ideas that are helping placemakers to understand space and how people use it.
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this week's forum: crime and planning

The kind of places that would be built, if the fear of crime is embedded as a primary consideration, would be horrific, intolerable and unsustainable...it starts with the chopping down of trees to allow the sweep of the CCTV system, moves on to the elimination of all soft landscaping, the closing of alleys jitties and ginnels, the installation of bright lights, the erection of barriers, the enclosure of public streets in private malls, and the celebration of the cul-de-sac...

So says David Lock, UK-based urban designer and theorist (see RUDI's urban agenda forum topic). But what do YOU say? Join RUDI's FORUM and express yourself. Its FREE to use you just need to login to participate. It's the place to get your views across to more than 10,000 urban design and placemaking professionals. Make a difference!