Comment: Susanne Pini on build-to-rent, the new place activator

Fundamentally, the life of a place grows exponentially the minute a mix of uses are present.As an example, we know that the rates of loneliness and obesity decrease the more community connection increases. What is less agreed on is how to best ‘sow the seeds’ for community to flourish as part of a diversified urban landscape.I often drive the long stretches of Parramatta Road and wonder whether we have forgotten, or just no longer believe in, the natural order of things that suggests