They Always Say ‘It Can’t Be Done’: On of Yogi Berra’s great sayings is ‘If they say it can’t be done, it doesn’t always work out that way,’ and we have found it to be appropriate for our work as well. Creating good public spaces is inevitably about encountering obstacles, because no one in either the public or private sectors has the job or responsibility to “create places.” For example, professionals, such as traffic engineers, transit operators, urban planners, and architects, all have narrow definitions of their job—facilitating traffic, or making trains run on time, or creating longterm schemes for building cities, or designing buildings. Their job, evident in most cities, is not to create ‘places.’ Starting with small-scale community-nurturing improvements can demonstrate the importance of ‘places’ and help to overcome obstacles.Form Supports Function: The input from the community and potential partners, the understanding of how other spaces function, the experimentation, and overcoming the obstacles and naysayers provides the concept for the space. Although design is important, these other elements tell you what ‘form’ you need to accomplish the future vision for the space.