# PLACES I imagine neighborhoods enabled with agora and mechanisms fit for Local and Slow. These neighborhoods will begin to design their relations with other neighborhoods, each supported by its own enzyme-like agora. The **big idea** here is **catalytic spaces** that protect and support the essential rate and nature for human beauty creation, where we gradually replace our ugly, top down approaches to managing complexity—often crudely done through amputations and blunt restrictions—propped up with misconceived claims of efficiency, practicality, and affordability. Affordability, practicality and efficiency should be defined and managed at the slow and local levels, supported and protected through our enzyme-like neighborhood places.