By about 6pm Coventry city centre is empty. You may encounter a few small groups of people passing through the centre only stopping to use a cash machine or maybe a group of skateboarders taking advantage of the empty spaces. Most people don't have a reason to occupy the city centre after 6pm. This 'coming like a ghost town' as The Specials put it is generally perceived as being one of the negative traits of Coventry city centre. Why does this trait have to be negative? Here we have an empty urban space with no activity, we should perceive the empty space as an opportunity. Viewing the empty space as an opportunity we have to ask ourselves the following questions:
Why are we not activating the space ourselves?
What or who is stopping us?
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