"It's nice to have bustling shared spaces where you can run into people you know without planning it beforehand."

posted Nov 4, 2015 at 2:20 PM

Not local, but this touches on a bunch of topics that often surface here on AOA: Vox's David Roberts looks at how the shapes of the places we live affect the ability of adults to make and maintain friendships -- specifically how walkable neighborhoods can encourage the sort of random or spontaneous meetings that help form relationships. [Vox] Earlier: Miss Pearl: Not feeling friendly

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Great article and one of the chief reasons I love living in the city of Albany. Given that I'm on the more introverted side, its the shared spaces (the bus, the cafe, a walk in the park with the dog) that grant me so many opportunities to meet and interact with folks or neighbors, that one often looses out when purely driving to work and back and proceeding to lock themselves in home for the night.

... said Rich on Nov 5, 2015 at 8:11 AM | link

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