#pedestrianisation

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Hey, can you reblog if you are or plan to be carfree, and if you want to or can’t let me know in the comments? Wanna see something (how many of us there are haha)

[anti-con-tent]

Behind Liverpool St station

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[freewebm]

Pedestrianisation of Soho: Past Challenges, Future Promise

[newsbites]

News from Marseille, 23 June.

The mayor of Marseille hopes for new announcements regarding transportation, the port, and security during Emmanuel Macron's forthcoming visit.

The visit will likely include a focus on security and drug trafficking, with the president meeting with the families of victims and visiting a school undergoing renovation.

The President last visited Marseille in September 2021.

2. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced that young people aged 17 will be able to obtain their driver's license from January 2024, and that financial aid for apprentices to obtain their license will be extended to students in vocational high schools.

The move has been criticized by road safety advocates who argue that it contradicts environmental concerns and that encouraging accompanied driving would be a safer alternative.

Borne also announced that young people aged 18 to 20 engaged in national service or youth engagement contracts will receive free train passes for a month.

3. The pedestrianization of the Cours Julien neighborhood in Marseille was delayed due to a disagreement between the City and the Metropole over the installation of an automatic bollard on Rue Poggioli, but has recently been resolved.

The pedestrianization of both neighborhoods is expected to be completed in 2023, with the possibility of a September or end-of-year completion for the Cours Julien neighborhood.

4. Marseille is experiencing a heatwave with temperatures reaching up to 32°C.

5. European cruise ships emitted more sulfur dioxide than one billion cars in 2022, causing harm to ecosystems and human health.

Barcelona was the most polluted port in Europe due to cruise ship emissions, followed by Civitavecchia, Piraeus, Palma Mallorca, and Lisbon.

Governments and ports should take measures to reduce cruise ship pollution, including requiring ships to connect to electric networks and encouraging the adoption of zero-emission technologies.

6. The summer season brings a variety of festivities in the south of France, including a romantic night under the stars in Seillans, a piano recital in Plan de la Tour, and traditional Provençal celebrations in Pont-de-l’Étoile.

The Nuit Romantique event in Seillans, organized by the association of the Most Beautiful Villages of France, features music, dance, stargazing, and food tastings.

The festival in Pont-de-l’Étoile highlights the traditions of Provence, including concerts, a fair, the famous soupe au pistou, and the sale of garlic, a staple ingredient in Provençal cuisine.

7. The controversy over the end of the public service mandate granted to the Château de la Buzine association, chaired by Nicolas Pagnol, has caused political response in the Departmental Council of Bouches-du-Rhône.

[streetsofdublin]

CAPEL STREET

The junction of Ryders Row and Capel Street will undergo a greening enhancement in January 2023 to make this entrance into Capel Street more welcoming.

[thedreadvampy]

When I am king it will be illegal to do car mods which do the following:

Make engines louder for no reason

Make the nyooooom sound for no reason

Make your engines constantly backfire like a fucking gun going off on a residential street you absolute fucking horsecunts some of us have reactive PTSD and live with a streetside window your car isn't a fucking fireworks show and btw when I'm king we won't have fireworks show either

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Not to be undemocratic but we need to just stop doing extensive public consultations for public projects in Ireland because I'm really tired of NIMBYism gutting important projects. Sorry I don't care that Margaret from Terenure doesn't want a bus lane or a cycle lane going by her house, she can fucking deal with it.

It feels like getting any good infrastructure work done here is always an uphill battle with retired homeowners who have nothing better to do than bitch about everything. Literally just stop caring what they think. You can't let some hyper-local opposition for stupid reasons kill a project that's going to benefit the city as a whole.

[deputychairman]

Choosing to draw a veil in my memory over the negative and only remember the positive side of this conference:

When a slide has the word ‘analysis’ but it won’t fit on the diagram and the person isn’t a native speaker of English so they put ‘anal’. Thank you you’re perfect, everyone knew what you meant, no notes.

My colleague getting to be sparkling & charismatic in Spanish and know exactly what she’s doing in this environment because we were in her country. She always thinks she can’t speak English but she managed brilliantly when she had to, that’s so hard and she did so well

Washing my underwear in my fancy hotel bathroom because counting 6 pairs to bring was too difficult apparently. It grounds a person to remember their student backpacking days and the hand soap I used smelled lovely.

A dinner where the people at our table kept telling me how perfect my Spanish was and laughed at my jokes which I do think is the ultimate metric of language mastery. The reassurance of meeting new people when you’re backed up by your work friends who you trust and you can keep setting each other up to sound cool & funny because you know each other so well. Honestly we were on fire at that table! They were lucky to be sitting with us and they were nice enough to say so!

The top tweet I ever wrote has a typo, of course it does

Bringing home 17 cool new fabric tote bags that were left over and it wasn’t worth shipping them back. So many free pens.

Maybe your presentation didn’t make sense but in my social media coverage it will, don’t worry. You tell me the things, I’ll turn it into an argument for you I’m good at this

Maybe we didn’t get thanked by name on stage like we deserved because (I’m not being negative here so never mind why) but everyone knew us and kept telling us how great we were, and we kept bigging each other up in public bc even if the person with the mic won’t do it word of mouth still can. Mmm nothing tastes good like the validation of many peers

It’s over and Im writing this to ritually cleanse and get it out of my head to make space for my own thoughts again! Goodbye to all that stress, hello the angle of the autumn sunlight & wild-eyed Daniel LaRusso with 3 day stubble, I have missed you!

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[surfs-up-brian]

Speaking of jaywalking once in Florida my dad crossed the freeway to get to a cafe or mcdonalds or something and everyone was mortified that he did so. It was like opposite his hotel and he refused to get a car bc why tf would you do that when its like 50 metres away.

[124daisies]

Levi's Store & Rolling Stones Store, Carnaby Street, London

[streetview-snapshots]

The Rock, Bury town centre

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[streetsofdublin]

NEW LANDSCAPING UNDERWAY AT RYDERS ROW IN DUBLIN

New landscaping and tree planting at the north end of Capel Street/Ryder’s Row by @DCCParksBiodiv, bounded by new Leinster granite kerbs.

APEX OF THE TRIANGLE BOUNDED BY CAPEL STREET – RYDERS ROW – PARNELL STREET New landscaping and tree planting at the north end of Capel Street/Ryder’s Row by @DCCParksBiodiv, bounded by new Leinster granite kerbs. It marks the beginning of the Capel Street interim public realm enhancement, to be delivered along the entire street by the start of summer. In 2022 the City Council had announced that…

[architectureandfilmblog]

Siedlung Halen, Atelier 5, 1961

“More than 50 years on, it’s one of the most successful housing estates in existence“

PARKOUR HALENSIEDLUNG (2007), SIEDLUNG HALEN (2010)

These videos offer two perspectives on the iconic Halen development - one looks at history and design detail, while in the other its massing, human scale, and playfulness are demonstrated through parkour.

The 79-home Swiss project was designed by 5 young architects on a forested site overlooking a river, 15 minutes cycle ride from Bern. The land had been intended for their own houses, until costs necessitated a higher density. Communal facilities such as the swimming pool, playground and community hall have shared ownership, and the internal streets are pedestrianised. For additional reading, this feature in Monocle (quoted above) includes short profiles of some of the residents. They reflect the fact that the buildings, arranged on a slope with high walls between gardens, seem to have found a sweet spot between community and privacy. As one resident says:  “You can sunbathe on the top floor balcony as God intended without anyone seeing.”

Perhaps part of Halen's success lies in how well it resolves two areas of tension in our relationship to spaces. Firstly the public/private balance, something like what Le Corbusier referred to as "silence, solitude, but also daily contact with mortals.” And secondly, Prospect Refuge theory, in which we crave immersion within nature, but also shelter from it - a view of the surrounding landscape, but also a feeling of enclosure and protection.