The scale in-between apartment towers feels different when they are activated by weekly markets.

Berlin, Germany

An annual summer harvest festival in RV Burgess Park unifies the surrounding tower community.  At the last two festivals, Thorncliffee Action Group, Diasporic Genius and ERA Architects presented the Women’s Cultural Café, which celebrates cultural exchange through food. 

Toronto, Canada

Community-led markets can respond to the specific needs and wants within a place.

London, England

Small businesse can activate tower grounds places for people to gather.

London, England

Tower communities can have fresh fruit and vegetables available within walking distance of peoples' homes.

Stockholm, Sweeden

How markets look, as they open within tower communities, is different around the world. However, access to fresh affordable food, close to home, allows it to become part of the rhythm of everyday life. 

Halle Neustadt, Germany

Community meetings, fitness classes, dance lessons, after school programs and more, community centers provide a home for the shared life of a community.

Berlin, Germany

Idea Stores are  London's unique take on community centers. As hubs for different activities they incorporate community programs, libraries as well as medical clinics. Their innovation is in how they break down geographic barriers to make play, learning and services available in tower communities.

London, England

Small businesses, in the base of apartment towers, need to find unique ways to make themselves visible. In this example from Sydney a bold canopy marks the store front. 

Sydney, Australia

Who doesn't love flowers?

Berlin, Germany

Very small to large, the size of a business within a tower community isn't prescribed. Markets in Melbourne include micro business that connect the spaces in-between apartment towers. 

Melbourne, Australia

Additions to apartment towers can remake the ground level creating a human-scale streetscape.

Copenhagen, Denmark

A public square and raised commercial promenade create draws for people to visit a space. Either way, care for the public realm creates spaces for people to gather. 

Halle Neustadt, Germany

Certain types of business, when integrated into tower communities, serve as meeting places.

Moscow, Russia

Daycares built in apartment tower communities service the community in the immediate vicinity. 

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Early childhood education can begin near the home. This tower community has a pre-school operating within it.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

A new town planned and built in the 1950's, Vallingby, organized apartment towers around a public transportation hub creating a working-dwelling centrer.

Vallingby, Sweden

East Scarborough Storefront's, sports court, challenges ideas about what a space to play can be. It takes one hardscaped area and makes it available for pickup basketball, soccer, tennis, field hockey and lacrosse.   

Toronto, Canada