Quayle, M., 1995, Urban greenways and public ways: realizing public ideas in a fragmented world, in: Landscape and Urban Planning, ,
- Author : Quayle, M.
- Year : 1995
- Journal/Series : Landscape and Urban Planning
- Pages : 461-475
- Abstract in English : How do we make things happen in the public realm? This article first considers four forces surrounding change and urban fragmentation technology and culture of compliance; connections between ecological literacy and sustainability; the uncertain this of public life, the relationship between education and place. This paper describes an exercise in helping people understand complex public ideas through a city citizen’s task force (Vancouver). These ideas are about urban greenways and public ways. The process has indicated the need for continue actions (poking, and prodding, nudging and needling) until the ideas are implemented. Barriers to implementing these public ideas in the political and bureaucratic climate of a land-poor but landscape-rich city are identified, and strategies are suggested to implement public ideas. A part of the paper’s conclusion is: Implementing public ideas is not easy…..There is no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to that it from them, but to inform their discretion (Thomas Jefferson).
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: greenways, urban landscape, public involment, community partnership, participation.