2. Focusing on the community

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Public spaces can help bring people and nature together.

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Public spaces should support how we:

  • connect with people in the community
  • make our relationships in the community stronger.

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Public spaces should make people feel:

  • included
  • safe to be who they are.

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Communities are experts on what makes their public spaces:

  • diverse
  • inclusive.

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When something is diverse, it includes lots of different people and experiences.

We should include different communities when we:

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  • plan and design public spaces

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  • build public spaces.

This will help the community to:

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  • feel proud

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  • feel that they belong

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  • connect to the place.