How not to build a sense of place.

Here is great piece about how a noble attempt to build a sense of place failed miserably. It is about a square built in a London neighborhood that didn't quite create the social energy the planners had hoped for. Here.

It turns out that place making is really, really hard. But at the same time, the author discusses how this part of London has plenty of social energy, it just isn't where the planners wanted it. So if there is a lesson here, it is to find where people are congregating, and build upon it.