Designing the compassionate city: creating places where people thrive

Introduction -- Human needs -- Embedding and receiving the messages in the urban environment -- What makes a place nurturing or neglectful? -- Living in the compassionate city -- Play quarters, London -- Benches collective, various locations in The Netherlands and overseas -- Tower hamlets cemetery park, London -- De Ceuvel, Amsterdam -- Woonerven, The Netherlands and overseas -- Christie Walk, Adelaide -- The secular pilgrimage and South Melbourne Commons, Melbourne -- Stewartstown Road Centre, Belfast -- UN Habitat placemaking projects in West Bank villages, Palestine -- The obstacles and pitfalls to creating places where people thrive -- Designing the compassionate city -- The characteristics of the compassionate city -- Applying compassionate city principles -- Conclusions