Apple controversy masks the real failures of Federation Square
- Written by Jonathan Daly, PhD Candidate & Casual Lecturer in Urban Design, University of Melbourne
Successful city squares act as nodes that connect places. They facilitate flows of people going about their daily lives through them as much, if not more, than they attract people to them. These flows enable the kind of random encounters Jane Jacobs saw as the lifeblood of cities.
Melbourne’s Federation Square is a destination, rather than a...
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