#pedestrian
“our new covid-19 reality shows that people can change behavior.”
- bogotá, colombia expanded bikeways. photo: fernando vergara
- part of park avenue in manhattan was closed to vehicle traffic on march 27 to give pedestrians more space. photo: carlo allegri
- markings on pathways in a dublin park encourage people to keep their distance. photo: brian lawless
read more: “the magic of empty streets.” nytimes, 08.04.2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/opinion/coronavirus-tips-new-york-san-francisco.html
https://www.spur.org/news/2020-04-08/magic-empty-streets
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The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
Photo: Demonstrators hold umbrellas at Victoria Park, Aug. 18. Photographer: Kyle Lam/Bloomberg
In Hong Kong, umbrellas are more than just protection from rain or glaring sunshine. They have become tools for expression, privacy and self-defense—and that’s made them a staple of the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the city over the past three months.
The humble brolly has been a symbol of resistance in Hong Kong since 2014, when the city’s pro-democracy protests became known as the Umbrella Movement. Now, Hong Kong’s police force has labeled umbrellas as weapons, and Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong.
“I tried to purchase umbrellas and I just can’t” on those platforms, said Kelvin Yeung, a 22-year-old university student who has participated in about half of the marches this summer. “I cannot put it into my basket if the destination is Hong Kong.”
Over the past 100-plus days, protesters have demonstrated dozens of ways to use umbrellas that have nothing to do with rain. Here are just a handful of examples, as well as what some protesters have to say about them. Many declined to give their full name for fear of punishment, and none are pictured.
Source:Bloomberg
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“An estimated 1.7 million people in Hong Kong—A QUARTER OF THE POPULATION—defied police orders to stage a peaceful march after a rally in a downtown park, after two months of increasingly violent clashes that have prompted severe warnings from Beijing and failed to win concessions from the city’s government.
Huge crowds filled Victoria Park on Sunday afternoon and spilled on to nearby streets, forcing police to block traffic in the area. Torrential rain came down an hour into the rally, turning the park into a sea of umbrellas. At the same time, protesters walked towards Central, the heart of Hong Kong’s business district, and surrounded government headquarters.”
read more: guardian, 18.08.19.
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Pedestrian sign.
#sidewalk #footpath #pedestrian #signs #JapanSigns (at Nagoya-shi, Aichi, Japan)
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Liberland could become the world’s first algae-powered city
Back in 2015, a group of disillusioned Czech citizens had this idea that they would secede from the nation and form their own sovereign state: the Republic of Liberland. The small 2.7 square mile site lies between Croatia and Serbia, right over a flood plain of the river Danube.
Several thousand people have since applied for citizenship in the tiny nation, with proposals for the design of the state open to those who dared submit a proposal. In the end it was RAW-NYC who came up with the winning idea; a stacked city of self-sustained blocks would gradually build upwards and outwards from an initial set in what the designers call “Inverted Archeology”.
The city would be pedestrian-friendly, and the unique stacked design would allow for buildings to be placed much closer together than traditional construction would allow. Buildings would be like skyscrapers put on their sides; built in layers and accessible to everyone at all levels rather than simply at the ground lobby as traditional towers would be. These would also be meticulously planned to allow natural light to penetrate all accessible spaces.
To mitigate greenhouse gases created by such a dense urban environment, algae strains that do not require sunlight to grow would be housed on the undersides of the buildings in a vast underground habitat; providing clean energy.
See more at: Inhabitat
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Hongdaeby Gwonie S. Nam
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streetscape around Hongdae 홍대 area
Hongdaeby Gwonie S. Nam
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streetscape around Hongdae 홍대 area
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Street art (graffiti) - Chelsea, New York City by Andreas Komodromos
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On the streets of New York City. Graffiti art in West Chelsea.
Work in progress - Hudson Yards, New York City by Andreas Komodromos
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Street photography, Hudson Yards, New York City
They finally got rid of weeds that were growing out of the stone elevation. Looking good with the fairy lights.
