[Urbanstudy] How to Make an Attractive City - YouTube

[Deb Ranjan Sinha]

In his book The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton asks why we
fetishize old buildings rather than building new ones even better suited to
our age. "How to Make an Attractive City" expands the question past our
individual structures to our giant collections of them: why haven't we built
a city many people love since the early 21st century? Taking a close look at
the qualities of the attractive and unattractive cities of the world, de
Botton settles on these six points to emphasize:

    Not too chaotic, not too ordered
    Visible life
    Compact
    Orientation and mystery
    Scale
    Make it local

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c