Revisiting the Social Life of small urban Places
It all begins with William Whyte's Social Life of Small Urban Places documentary from the 1980s, studying how people meet, eat, rest, and interact in New York's POPS (Privately Owned Public Spaces). Forty years later, my friend Chloe and I are following his footsteps, armed with new AI tools instead of his rooftop time-lapse cameras. We're asking: What's changed since then? Are we more lonely? Has phone use transformed our behavior? Are we still flirting in public spaces?