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This raises an interesting point about people wanting to protect or defend 'their' spaces. I can understand why someone would put this out, there is a lot of fear around the virus & other people are threats. There is a chance some people are neighbours that they don't know 1/ https://twitter.com/lauradowling__/status/1352737305052770305
This fear is central to a lot of objections around opening laneways & other permeability measures including cycleways & safe routes for schools etc. More people passing your home makes your area safer. The more likely you are to get to know more people in your locality 2/
And results in less loneliness & isolation. Safer neighbourhoods mean more people, especially vulnerable people, will go out and exercise. => a healthier neighbourhood. The fear is understandable. But we need dispel the myths. People cutting themselves off compound the issue 3/
Similarly, high walls and gated homes in urban neighbourhoods have a negative effect. In the process of making themselves feel safer by isolating themselves they are negatively impacting on the street outside their home. A vicious circle thats detremential for walkability 4/4
