Monday, March 16, 2009

EcoBuzz: Reclaiming Space

A little green space giving a tired hawker a moment's pause in a torrid day. Pictures - functional shack covers in Laini 7 - that may yet invite a little smile when a train passes through. Poetry engraved near a busy commuter terminus in a large city that exhorts the traveller to "Fare well. Return. Fare well. Return again...". With a country so cruelly divided, cities and towns bring us together, force us to live with one another. Our urban spaces should be functional but they need not be banal. They can be great equalisers despite great inequality. It's time to reclaim these spaces, they are ours. Us. Ordinary people: citizens; artists; poets; visionaries; dreamers and workers.