The author of the video, The School of Life/Alain de Botton, summarizes his opinion about how to obtain attractive cities in 6 points, which would be:
1.- Not too chaotic. Not too ordered. Order and variety. Putting as example the island of Java in Asterdam or a square in the Czech Republic.
2.- Visible life. It refers to the presence of people walking and working on the streets of the city. In the opposite side would be the industrial estates.
3.- Compact. The ideal thing they would be the cities to half a way between the lived accumulation centuries behind and the dispersion of last decades, both negative sides. In these compact cities, great importance receives the square, in decline in the last years because of problems with the scale. The city of Barcelona would be a positive example.
4.- Orientation and Mystery. The cities need big streets across which to be orientated, and others smaller that allow the mystery and in which getting lost.
5.- Scale. It refers to the dimensions of the buildings. According to the author of the video, they should not exceed five plants. They might exceed this height the buildings with a special importance.
6.- Make it local. It refers to the character of the cities, his forms and the local materials. For example, Millbrae Crescent in the south of Glasgow.
