If there's a lesson in streetwatching it is that people do like basics -- and as environments go, a street that is open to the sky and filled with people and life is a splendid place to be.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

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…