Positive 1: On the city.

Joy in the face of the city. London. Nov. 09

The city is "an immense laborator[y] of trail and error"

-Jane Jacobs - "the Life and Death of American Cities"

Perhaps the contemporary city has had enough.

It's had enough of your self-congratulatory deconstruction, complaints and verbose whingeing. It's time to be positive.

We love the city here at positive urban adventure. We love the conflicts it creates, those places at the meeting of personal trajectories. The recycling of a piece timber from a bin in Islington, to a tabletop in Hackney: not so much for the act, but for the meeting of narratives it symbolises.

Consider: Family fixing a hole in their floor rig up a temporary piece of flooring; it serves it's purpose, the builders arrive and they throw it out. A group walks past, notice the flooring, which to them is a table, and they carry it home to spill wine over.

Perhaps this is not the best story, but it is one that begins to illustrate the connected complexity that makes us positive about the city. That made us start this blog.

Welcome to our positive urban adventure.