My research starts from a personal experience I had when me and my family moved in a new suburban area, fifteen years ago.
The city in which I moved, was born as an only residential area with no commercial and transportation services at all. Afterwards it has kept this characteristic and just recently two supermarkets have been built.
What this area really lacks in, is a series of services that make people enjoy and live it. As this neighbourhood is located in a suburban area, usually people get the car to go to work in the city centre and this contributes to make it like a dormitory.
As a typical sprawl, the residential area is built in a non intensive way. So the mojority of the houses are terraced houses, villas or semi-detached houses with gardens.
But the most important fact is that there isn’t a urban design concerning services and community activities. People live in their own houses without taking part to any activity in the neighbourhood and their childs don’t have a play area. There is any kind of communal space, like a square, in which people can meet.
Since this issue is very important and personal for me, I would like to investigate and research on a possible solution to make people feel part of a community and I’m considering the idea of choosing exactly my city as the location of my project.
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