Subjectivity and streets: if streets are for people, what a weird and wonderful world this statement takes us to...

Do you ever just sit, or stand, and watch people go by? If you don’t, you should. If you do, maybe you should do it some more. The life of a town or city is to be seen in its streets. When street design starts to engage with real people, it takes on much more than an eclectic mix of needs; it enters the world of wants, aspirations and more besides: non-essentials-but-nice-to-haves; aesthetics; look-and-feel; ‘Character’; ‘Heritage’. And what about, as the French so charmingly put it, je ne sais...