What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

One felicity leads to another. Good places tend to be all of a piece - and the reason can almost always be traced to a human being.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

We are not hapless beings caught in the grip of forces we can do little about, and wholesale damnations of our society only lend a further mystique to organiza…