OneU

Young city dwellers are more "connected" than ever and yet lonelier at the same time. A national study has indicated that 71-79% of people who make up younger generations reported experiencing infrequent meaningful social interactions, compared to only 50% of those in older generations. As more people move into urban centers, how do cities and the places where we live develop to combat very real deficiencies in social connectivity? How can towers play a role? 

Our Social Greenways connect multiple levels of the tower and provide intermediate scales within a tall building. They are a form of vertical urbanism more closely related to the neighborhood’s streets, campus plazas, and parks. They are places for neighbors to gather and connect on an everyday path. They foster serendipitous interaction like those in the public realm rather than the forced interaction in private residential spaces scaled-up to meet the capacity of high-rise structures.