AT THE RIVER’S EDGE
South Perth Foreshore
South Perth, Western Australia
Built on the land of the Noongar people
Place Laboratory
In his seminal 1977 book The Fall of Public Man, urban sociologist Richard Sennett made a powerful argument for a more formal public culture while critiquing what he viewed as an increasingly indulgent individualism. In the decades since, city planning and the designers of the public domain have echoed Sennett’s advocacy for the public spaces of civil society by using design to activate, program, market and wholly embrace public gathering spaces. Now, the COVID-19 global pandemic has changed our public and private lives profoundly. As we return to a “new normal,” it is
