Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.
• Jonathan Glancey at the Guardian offers an interesting view into the role of architecture in contemporary British life. “Spending on architecture and building (not always the same thing) has fallen in real terms over the past 200 years. Where once buildings were the greatest, proudest and most expensive objects money could buy, today we spend on much else besides. … For the most part today, we aim to build as cheaply as possible.”
• Irritated by sidewalk slowpokes? So is the New West End Company, a group of 600 business owners in the district around Oxford Street in London and they’re taking action. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the group plans to separate sidewalk traffic into speed lanes – directing slow movers to walk in a “shopper lane” along store fronts, so that hurried residents and workers can proceed without opposition on the sidewalk’s edges.
• But if you live in the fast lane, what are you missing? According to Living Streets, residents of busy streets experience a 75% reduction in local friendships when compared with their neighbours on less travelled streets.
• Folks parking at San Francisco’s North Beach Garage are sure to get the message. The garage is home to clever fortunes painted onto each parking spot, reports Telstar Logistics
Photo by Telstar Logisitics
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