tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73221288077209780632024-03-05T07:29:48.201-08:00BesetzteStrasseresearching street design in station areas, 24hrs - London and Frankfurt - Bahnhofsviertelerneuereung Frankfurt am Main und London
twitter:@BesetzteStrasse - interviews 2010-2012 http://soundcloud.com/besetztestrassenomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-30534848663498122212015-08-07T12:53:00.000-07:002015-08-07T12:53:37.711-07:00Mini-Lessons in London: City Guides for 'Professors Abroad'Lecture-seminars offered beginning in September in London for Professors Abroad:<br />
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1. London, introduction<br />
An introduction to London for new arrivals, from a local - eat, drink, sleep, think, play....<br />
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2. London at night<br />
London after dark - reflecting on history - night in the 21st century - walk, travel, think, play...<br />
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3. London's railway stations<br />
International, regional, underground, overground and light rail - a complex web<br />
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4. Living on London's Regent's Canal<br />
Waterside and waterborne living on what was a freight route for the industrial revolution<br />
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5. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, introduction<br />
Little 'Mainhattan', was rated in 2015 the most sustainable city in the world, people planet and profit<br />
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6. Frankfurt at night<br />
Frankfurt is a conurbation of three cities has diverse and intriguing night life, work and play<br />
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7. Frankfurt's railway station noir<br />
Frankfurt's international station quarter has a diverse and intriguing night and noir scene<br />
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8. Vienna, Austria<br />
An introduction to Vienna for visitors, from a resident - eat, drink, sleep, think, play....<br />
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9. Graz, Austria<br />
An introduction to Graz for visitors, from a resident - eat, drink, sleep, think, play....<br />
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10. Perth, Australia<br />
An introduction to Perth for visitors, from a resident - eat, drink, sleep, think, play....<br />
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11. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<br />
An introduction to Ulaanbaatar for visitors, from a resident - eat, drink, sleep, think, play....<br />
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12. London to Ulaanbaatar by train<br />
Introduction to a land journey to the far east from a veteran, weeks of slow travel....<br />
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For American or English-speaking undergraduates (approximately 19 - 21 years of age), studying any discipline offered in the American study abroad system. <br />
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History, art and architecture students, social sciences, physical sciences, fine arts, technology and communications. General lessons about a city / location / route designed to be attractive to students who are visiting for the first time and have little experience of same. <br />
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Several general mini-lessons (arranged by theme, or by part the city, for example), are proposed, with a few specialized in my field. Offering the classes in September!<br />
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professors@professorsabroad.comg.cowan@my.westminster.ac.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04471772288999575039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-70866564985209512312014-06-26T16:22:00.000-07:002014-07-04T22:05:07.480-07:00"temporär wohnen_prekär" - Temporary and Precarious Living in London<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Am 02.07.2014 von 14:00 – 19:00 uhr veranstaltete das i_w - Institut für Wohnbau TUGraz - ein symposion zum letztjährigen </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">semesterthema "temporär wohnen_prekär" im grazer <a href="http://www.hda-graz.at/">hda</a>. Haus der Architektur</span><br>
<br><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ich war eingeladen, einen Impulsbericht zu machen über Wohnen in London und das Prekär, dann auch mit Anderen über Themen einer Auswahl arbeiten von studierenden öffentlich zu </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">diskutieren. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>temporär wohnen_prekär</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 July 2014 Haus der Architektur</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Architektur - und damit das Wohnen und der Wohnbau - sind oft als Rahmen der '<i>infallibility</i>' (<span style="background-color: #ffffee; border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=Unfehlbarkeit&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on" style="background-color: #ffffee; border: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;">Unfehlbarkeit</span></a>)</span> und '<i>security</i>' (Sicherheit) gedacht - aber kann auch als '<i>incidental'</i>, (Gelegentlich-zufaellig), '</span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">temporary'</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">zeitweilig-temporaer) und <i>precarious</i> (prekaer) gelten.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Von Privatisierung des Wohnens, des Sozialwohnbaus, und des Stadtwohnens, bis zur prekaeres Wohnen.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meine eigener Erfahrung:<br>Privat miete</span><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Georgian Rental Marchmont Street - 4-geschossig - Laden im EG</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Privat kauf</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ex Local Authority flat - Mortgage </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif">Bootkaukf und miete einer Dauerliegeplatz. </font><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Floating home - zum Innenstadtbootleben und Wohnen in London </span><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Methodologie</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vergleichende Staedtebaufeldforschung:</span><br><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eine Angehensweise mit schwer-zu-erreichende Teilnehmer</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Klang als Stadtbild und Dokumentation</span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif">Klangkarten zB London Sound Survey<br></font>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anthropologie Feldforschung London and Frankfurt</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Wohnbau</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Modell Rotes Wien im vergleich mit Social Housing London</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif">Privatisierung Sozialer Wohnbau zu ära Thatchers. Steigerung Mietepreise, leistbarkeit der leistbare Wohnungen.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Das öffentliche Gespräch fand Mittwoch 2. Juli statt. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mit jenen referenten, die bereits am früheren Impulstag über diese L</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ehrveranstaltungen und deren Inhalte berichtet hatten, wurde ein Schreiben mit Stellungnahmen und F</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">orderungen zu diesem gesellschaftlich brisanten thema erarbeitet, und wird dann erntwickelt.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br></font>
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</div></div>g.cowan@my.westminster.ac.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04471772288999575039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-30733059901327175292014-04-17T14:53:00.000-07:002014-11-08T05:55:44.484-08:00Occupying Streets - abstract<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Occupying Streets:
Street Design in Station Areas in London and Frankfurt (2014)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This research investigated street design in inner city station areas,
comparing Frankfurt’s station quarter with that of King’s Cross in London. Both are vibrant
mixed use areas, with residential, office, commercial and evening entertainment uses in
internationally well connected and culturally diverse station hub areas. Based on a gap in
knowledge of street design beyond engineering and urban design, a diverse set of hard-to-reach users and some intermediary agents were interviewed in each case study. The research questions were; ‘how is
street design orchestrated?’, ‘how are night and day significant?’, ‘how is quality of place
reconciled with movement in streets?, and ‘how can we learn from streets?’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The research design analysed both the Niddastraβe in Frankfurt and the Caledonian
Road in King’s Cross Street as physical environments and to understand how they worked
or could be improved from the perspective of users and change agents on each street, and from interviews
to discover the criteria stakeholders considered significant for making the street more liveable.
Semi-structured interviews were developed as a participant observation tool as extant
and future street design in each case were investigated using a mixed methodology.
Analysis of the two sets of interviews found six themes of importance to users and agencies;
distinctiveness, transport, conflict, recognition, accessibility and transition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The contributions to knowledge can be seen in four ways. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The formerly under-recognised
part that street design plays - making station hubs vital and liveable places - has been identified.
A factor described as noir urbanism is shown to add distinctiveness and attractiveness
to station areas. The need is outlined to work hard for genuine collaboration between
end-users and professionals in co-production of streets, and especially by working <i>live</i> and <i>in situ</i>, which is rarely done. The urban soundscape, usually under-recognised in street design,
is also presented as an integral part of the experience of the station area and the city.</span><br />
<strike></strike>nomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-22938141828382093292014-04-17T12:55:00.003-07:002014-04-17T13:05:33.945-07:00Interviews NiddastrasseAls wichtiger Teil meiner Forschung über die Gestaltung von Strassen im Bahnhofsviertel suche ich diverse TeilnehmerInnen für spazierende / gehende Interviews. Ich habe vor, per Klangaufnahmen die 15-20 minutige spaziergaengchen in Niddastrasse zu analysieren, um Gestaltung von Strassenraueme bzw Shared Space zu erforschen. In Dezember zu verschiedenen Tageszeiten u Wochentagen möchte ich mit TeilnehmerInnen in der Niddastrasse sprechen und ihre Erfahrungen und Meinungen hoeren.<br />
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Die Forschung laueft in Zusammenhang mit einem Projekt an der University of Westminster, die Aussagen werden ohne ausdrueckliche zusage nicht Veroeffentlicht, und mit zugabe werden lediglich die anonymisierte Klangaufnahmen oeffentlich benutzt.<br />
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Forschungsfragen / Fragethemen<br />
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Positive Eigenschaften v Strassenraum<br />
Negative Eigenschaften v Strassenraum<br />
Moegliche Verbesserungen<br />
Nuztung d Gehsteiges / Fahrbahn<br />
Ueberquerung des Fahrbahns<br />
Visuelle Chaos / Stoerung<br />
<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps">Betriebsgelände auf Gehsteig</span></span>nomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-73402088819352867752014-04-17T12:55:00.002-07:002014-04-17T12:55:30.305-07:00Interviews Caledonian RoadA critically important part of a current research project on Street Design at the University of Westminster involves walking interviews with users and managers of Caledonian Road. It is intended to walk for 15-20 minutes and to sound record a semi-structured interview.<br />
At various times of day ad night on various weekdays in November these interviews are intended to reveal experiences and opinions of interviewees about the street design and potential improvements.<br />
The research is part of a project at the University of Westminster, and interviewees comments will not be published without their express permission. Interviewees will be asked if the anonymous sound files of their voices may be published.<br />
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Questions/Themes<br />
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Positive Qualities<br />
Negative Attributes<br />
Potential Improvements<br />
Using the footway / Roadway<br />
Crossing (traversing) the carriageway<br />
Visual Clutter <br />
Safetynomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-49526166058889035622014-04-02T12:53:00.001-07:002014-04-10T01:01:50.259-07:00<br />
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padding: 0px;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2 years ago</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6 views</li>
</ul></div><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">listen to Part 6<br /><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tk7ipWOw4k" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tk7ipWOw4k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tk7ipWOw4k</a></div></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-thumbnail" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="ux-thumb-wrap yt-uix-sessionlink contains-addto " data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqJIy__APg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;"><span class="video-thumb yt-thumb yt-thumb-185" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 185px;"><span class="yt-thumb-default" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 104.0625px;"><span class="yt-thumb-clip" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: -100px; left: -100px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: -100px; text-align: center; top: -100px; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><img alt="Thumbnail" data-thumb="//i1.ytimg.com/vi/7WqJIy__APg/mqdefault.jpg" src="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/7WqJIy__APg/mqdefault.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="185" /> <span class="vertical-align" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 304.0625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"></span></span></span></span><span class="video-time" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; bottom: 2px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; display: inline-block; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.75; padding: 0px 4px; position: absolute; right: 2px; vertical-align: top; zoom: 1;">6:21</span><button class="addto-button video-actions spf-nolink hide-until-delayloaded addto-watch-later-button yt-uix-button yt-uix-button-default yt-uix-button-size-small yt-uix-tooltip" data-video-ids="7WqJIy__APg" role="button" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); bottom: 2px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588) 0px 1px 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 22px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 2px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 22px; word-wrap: normal;" title="Watch Later" type="button"><span class="yt-uix-button-content" style="background-image: url(https://s.ytimg.com/yts/imgbin/www-hitchhiker-vflFsmVVN.webp); background-position: -34px -1118px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 13px;"><img alt="Watch Later" src="https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif" style="background-image: url(https://s.ytimg.com/yts/imgbin/www-hitchhiker-vflFsmVVN.webp); background-position: -34px -1118px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 13px;" /></span></button></a></div><div class="yt-lockup-content" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><h3 class="yt-lockup-title" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="yt-uix-sessionlink yt-uix-tile-link yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqJIy__APg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Croydon Sound Sojourn 4 (audio only - use headphones)">Croydon Sound Sojourn 4 (audio only - use headphones)</a></h3><div class="yt-lockup-meta" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="yt-lockup-meta-info" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2 years ago</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7 views</li>
</ul></div><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">listen to Part 5<br /><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhC1Sd8MkQ" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhC1Sd8MkQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhC1Sd8MkQ</a></div></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-thumbnail" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="ux-thumb-wrap yt-uix-sessionlink contains-addto " data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClmnaG3QHc" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;"><span class="video-thumb yt-thumb yt-thumb-185" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 185px;"><span class="yt-thumb-default" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 104.0625px;"><span class="yt-thumb-clip" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: -100px; left: -100px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: -100px; text-align: center; top: -100px; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><img alt="Thumbnail" data-thumb="//i1.ytimg.com/vi/UClmnaG3QHc/mqdefault.jpg" src="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/UClmnaG3QHc/mqdefault.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="185" /> <span class="vertical-align" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 304.0625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"></span></span></span></span><span class="video-time" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; bottom: 2px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; display: inline-block; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.75; padding: 0px 4px; position: absolute; right: 2px; vertical-align: top; zoom: 1;">5:34</span><button class="addto-button video-actions spf-nolink hide-until-delayloaded addto-watch-later-button yt-uix-button yt-uix-button-default yt-uix-button-size-small yt-uix-tooltip" data-video-ids="UClmnaG3QHc" role="button" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); bottom: 2px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588) 0px 1px 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 22px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 2px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 22px; word-wrap: normal;" title="Watch Later" type="button"><span class="yt-uix-button-content" style="background-image: url(https://s.ytimg.com/yts/imgbin/www-hitchhiker-vflFsmVVN.webp); background-position: -34px -1118px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 13px;"><img alt="Watch Later" src="https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif" style="background-image: url(https://s.ytimg.com/yts/imgbin/www-hitchhiker-vflFsmVVN.webp); background-position: -34px -1118px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 13px;" /></span></button></a></div><div class="yt-lockup-content" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><h3 class="yt-lockup-title" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="yt-uix-sessionlink yt-uix-tile-link yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClmnaG3QHc" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Croydon Sound Sojourn pt 3 lost (audio only - use headphones)">Croydon Sound Sojourn pt 3 lost (audio only - use headphones)</a></h3><div class="yt-lockup-meta" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="yt-lockup-meta-info" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2 years ago</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8 views</li>
</ul></div><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">listen to Part 4<br /><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqJIy__APg" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqJIy__APg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqJIy__APg</a></div></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-thumbnail" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="ux-thumb-wrap yt-uix-sessionlink watched contains-addto " data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei_bUHJagjM" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;"><span class="video-thumb yt-thumb yt-thumb-185" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.7; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 185px;"><span class="yt-thumb-default" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 104.0625px;"><span class="yt-thumb-clip" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: -100px; left: -100px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: -100px; text-align: center; top: -100px; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><img alt="Thumbnail" data-thumb="//i1.ytimg.com/vi/Ei_bUHJagjM/mqdefault.jpg" src="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Ei_bUHJagjM/mqdefault.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="185" /> <span class="vertical-align" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 304.0625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"></span></span></span></span><div class="watched-badge" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; left: 10px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 4px; position: absolute; text-overflow: ellipsis; top: 10px; white-space: nowrap; word-wrap: normal;">WATCHED</div><span class="video-time" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; bottom: 2px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; display: inline-block; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.75; padding: 0px 4px; position: absolute; right: 2px; vertical-align: top; zoom: 1;">1:47</span><button class="addto-button video-actions spf-nolink hide-until-delayloaded addto-watch-later-button yt-uix-button yt-uix-button-default yt-uix-button-size-small yt-uix-tooltip" data-video-ids="Ei_bUHJagjM" role="button" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); bottom: 2px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588) 0px 1px 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 22px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 2px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 22px; word-wrap: normal;" title="Watch Later" type="button"><span class="yt-uix-button-content" style="background-image: url(https://s.ytimg.com/yts/imgbin/www-hitchhiker-vflFsmVVN.webp); background-position: -34px -1118px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 13px;"><img alt="Watch Later" src="https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif" style="background-image: url(https://s.ytimg.com/yts/imgbin/www-hitchhiker-vflFsmVVN.webp); background-position: -34px -1118px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 13px;" /></span></button></a></div><div class="yt-lockup-content" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><h3 class="yt-lockup-title" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="yt-uix-sessionlink yt-uix-tile-link yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei_bUHJagjM" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Croydon Sound Sojourn pt 2 (audio only - use headphones)">Croydon Sound Sojourn pt 2 (audio only - use headphones)</a></h3><div class="yt-lockup-meta" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="yt-lockup-meta-info" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2 years ago</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7 views</li>
</ul></div><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">listen to part 3<br /><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClmnaG3QHc" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClmnaG3QHc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClmnaG3QHc</a></div></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></li>
<li class="yt-lockup clearfix channels-browse-content-list-item yt-lockup-video yt-lockup-tile" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 705px; padding: 0px;"><div class="yt-lockup-thumbnail" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="ux-thumb-wrap yt-uix-sessionlink watched contains-addto " data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15rEVko7R7A" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;"><span class="video-thumb yt-thumb yt-thumb-185" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.7; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 185px;"><span class="yt-thumb-default" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 104.0625px;"><span class="yt-thumb-clip" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: -100px; left: -100px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: -100px; text-align: center; top: -100px; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><img alt="Thumbnail" data-thumb="//i1.ytimg.com/vi/15rEVko7R7A/mqdefault.jpg" src="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/15rEVko7R7A/mqdefault.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="185" /> <span class="vertical-align" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 304.0625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"></span></span></span></span><div class="watched-badge" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; left: 10px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 4px; position: absolute; text-overflow: ellipsis; top: 10px; white-space: nowrap; word-wrap: normal;">WATCHED</div><span class="video-time" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; bottom: 2px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; display: inline-block; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.75; padding: 0px 4px; position: absolute; right: 2px; vertical-align: top; zoom: 1;">1:28</span><button class="addto-button video-actions spf-nolink hide-until-delayloaded addto-watch-later-button yt-uix-button yt-uix-button-default yt-uix-button-size-small yt-uix-tooltip" data-video-ids="15rEVko7R7A" role="button" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; 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background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 13px;" /></span></button></a></div><div class="yt-lockup-content" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><h3 class="yt-lockup-title" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="yt-uix-sessionlink yt-uix-tile-link yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" data-sessionlink="ei=PKg0U7iYKZbMqAXHxYDIAw" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15rEVko7R7A" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1b7fcc; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Croydon Sound Sojourn 1 - getting there (audio only - use headphones)">Croydon Sound Sojourn 1 - getting there (audio only - use headphones)</a></h3><div class="yt-lockup-meta" style="background-color: transparent; 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7 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOCoPmiGHfs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOCoPmiGHfs</a>g.cowan@my.westminster.ac.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04471772288999575039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-87707573456780494792014-03-27T15:26:00.001-07:002014-03-27T15:26:25.184-07:00'Occupy' 2003, Perth (31 March 2003)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-HPnUwbVR3I" width="459"></iframe>g.cowan@my.westminster.ac.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04471772288999575039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-37382098855027463262013-10-01T12:45:00.001-07:002013-10-01T12:45:18.464-07:00Walk 21 Munich<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />g.cowan@my.westminster.ac.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04471772288999575039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-82444854799298063362012-09-17T07:42:00.005-07:002012-09-17T07:43:06.044-07:00themesOccupying Streets - Key Research analysis themes, September 2012<br />
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grounded<br />
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clutter and decluttering ----- <i>ent-rümpel-ung</i><br />
disenfranchisement and enfranchisement ----- <i>bürger-berechtigung bzw entrechtigung</i><br />
accessibility
----- <i>zugänglichkeit</i><br />
active frontages
----- <i>sozial aktiv Fassade</i><br />
adult entertainment
----- <i>erwachsenenunterhaltung bzw rotlicht bzw milieu</i><br />
motor vehicle (car)-centric planning ----- <i>autogerechtes (motor fahrzeug) stadtplanung </i><br />
character of place
----- <i>ortscharakter</i><br />
collaboration
----- <i>zusammenarbeit</i><br />
conflict
----- <i>konflikt</i><br />
deemed to comply with planning ----- <i>planungentsprechend</i><br />
design
----- <i>design gestaltung</i><br />
distinctiveness of place
----- <i>ortsbesonderheiten</i><br />
diversity
----- <i>vielfalt</i><br />
drug addict, drinker
----- <i>drogensüchtige mensch</i><br />
emotion love - hate
----- <i>liebe hass, mag night mag, unangenehm / angenehm</i><br />
(or milder like / dislike, agreeable / disagreeable)<br />
energy
----- <i>energie</i><br />
gender male-female (masculine / feminine / gay etc) ----- <i>mannlich - weiblich - schwühl</i><br />
greening
----- <i>begrünung</i><br />
mode of transport
----- <i>verkehrsart</i><br />
noise - sound
----- <i>geraüsch / klang</i><br />
pavement-parking
----- <i>gehsteige / gehwege / autoabstellplatz / parkplatz</i><br />
price
----- <i>preis</i><br />
professional silos
----- <i>expertentrennung</i><br />
recognise others
----- <i>erkennung anderen</i> <br />
safety and health
----- <i>sicherheit / gesundheit</i><br />
time - day - night - year - season ----- <i>zeit - tag - nacht - jahreszeit</i><br />
transitional place - node
----- <i>übergangsort / knoten</i><br />
trees ----- <i>bäume</i>g.cowan@my.westminster.ac.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04471772288999575039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-21598199411027536732012-07-27T04:57:00.003-07:002012-07-30T03:20:49.624-07:00Liveable London Streets"<b>Jon Snow sees Olympic Lanes as 'hope for liveable cities'... </b>" a provocative and ironic headline from <a href="http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/jon-snow-sees-olympic-lanes-as-hope-for-liveable-cities" target="_blank">Mark Sutton in BikeBiz on 26 July</a><br />
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Segregation - the post-WW2 highway engineering technique of dividing road space between users - has apparently made London streets temporarily less congested and more inviting - but for the twenty-first century city, the 'architecture' of occupying street must evolve with a new urban environment. Cyclists were agreeing with Snow on <a href="https://twitter.com/BesetzteStrasse/status/228822049542512640" target="_blank">twitter</a> that (ironically) the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-2012-minor-delays-as-olympic-vip-zil-lanes-come-into-force-7976568.html" target="_blank">ZIL</a> lanes had made Whitehall more pleasant for cycling.<br />
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Segregated cycle infrastructure, in the form of dedicated lanes, even re-purposed olympic (VIP limousine) lanes may be one way to make a visible political gesture in support of cycling. We have seen this in the form of the blue 'Boris' lanes - where there have also been cycle fatalities. I have seen an example on Peace Avenue, the main east-west traffic artery in the rapidly-developing Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. There, a short section of segregated green-painted cycle lane was installed to promote a local political campaign to modernise and globalise (in appearance at least) a city full of jeeps and coal-fired power stations. These lanes have done little for pedestrian environments, for aesthetic qualities of streets, or for any holistic idea of liveable streets. In London, 'Going Dutch' as the London Cycle Campaign is branded, will require more than road-space reallocation, but also changes in head-space of all street users. In inner-city London, there is currently too little understanding distinctions between roads and streets in the public realm.<br />
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In the case of London, the task of developing more liveable city streets might be helped somewhat by maintaining VIP lanes as a legacy for cycling, and by continuing to deter motorists from entering London. The cause will be helped somewhat by the prevalence (in both road space and head space) of urban cycling advocates like <a href="https://twitter.com/jonsnowC4" target="_blank">Jon Snow</a>, my <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremytill" target="_blank">boss</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/marksuttonbike" target="_blank">Mark Sutton</a> (and me - <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10965608" target="_blank">MAMIL</a> tendency noted). However, streets will also have to be reclaimed by citizens as part of the public realm, beyond 20th century transport engineering (<a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/" target="_blank">TfL</a>). The physical environment of London streets needs to be recolonised and designed by, with and for people who live and work in them. GCnomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-77752738038612956192012-07-06T09:52:00.001-07:002013-08-21T08:54:59.606-07:00Caledonian Road & Niddastrasse: Songs / Themes<br />
Reviewing more than forty interviews I conducted, I composed twenty main themes.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1. international culture and
expectations of the city<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Hotel guests from China<b> </b>visiting
the Frankfurt book fair<b> don't understand the situation with Frankfurt
drug-users</b> in the street (F14) </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">2. contrast of different types of
people<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"that place makes great
dumplings" two architects, also "we saw someone ‘painting a
building with their with fingernails’ " i.e. drug user scratching wall in
the street (F18) </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3. safety and health in the
street and behind the building fronts<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In Niddastrasse I <b>conduct
industrial health and safety checks</b> in offices and workplaces here, DBSV
calls for provision for <b>blind </b>people, kerbs, crossings (F4)</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">4. active frontages</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
I've walked Niddastrasse for twenty years. The street is very narrow at the
Taunusanlage end, has inactive frontages (F21) I didn't notice the gambling
hall (F14)</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">5. greening the street</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
"Niddastrasse <b>needs a few more trees</b>" cafe waiter at Luna Park
talking with two architects, also graphics office also Dona Carmen F21</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">6. ideal future of Niddastrasse</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
Church minister imagines Niddastrasse as heaven: "no drugs, no
prostitution, the born-again into God's Kingdom" F5 </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">7. decluttering<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">nobody has mentioned obsolete
duplicated or unnecessary signage or street furniture</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">8. habitable street space<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Furriers morning coffee meetings at
benches outside cafe Luna Park, birthday party. Restaurant tables on Karlsplatz</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">9. vehicle traffic flow <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">vehicle access is important. Parking
fr 25h Hotel. Narrow end, street parking. The area has a high level of public
transport accessibility (F19)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><b>10. trees</b> <br />lack of active frontages F21</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Songs of Caledonian Road / King’s
Cross London</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1. two way and one way streets<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Safety on the traffic gyratory:
cyclist and heritage activist (L14), advertising exec (L19, L13) Shared space
difficult to use for blind people and guide dogs, tactiles are ambiguous (L3)</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">2. attractive old buildings and
scale<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">nice buildings on lower
Caledonian Rd - advertising exec (L19) even in cold weather and rain</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3. public realm design</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
public realm risk and safety (L1) Huxf (L2) Russell spaceshaper process games
to collaborate CN (L10)</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">4. pedestrian safety</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
safe, viable, vital and attractive streets lighting near buses L7 Sanaz </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">5. cycling environment</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
King's Cross to Marylebone by bicycle - less Stop-Start than Fft, non-signal
controlled junctions left traffic, shop facades (L8) cycle activists “Bikes Alive”
K (L17, L19, L16) nature, (L15, L14) LCC</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">6. mix of uses</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
Green Sky thinking L6, north section improvements Vaultex planter boxes, Cine
club and Mosque</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">7. decluttering<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Difficult to get agencies
together to deduplicate signage and unnecessary street furniture (L12) </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">8. Distinctive Independent Shops<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Shopkeeper says Tesco chain store
has benefited small independent Italian Continental Delicatessen (L13)</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">9. Vital and distinctive area<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Visitors Italy (L18) Belgium
(L11), optimistic about the future of the area, London vitality</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">10. Gyratory removal <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">return to two-way traffic will
require removal of some buildings (L20)</span><br />
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draft 6.7.12<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span>nomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-39584850762407475822012-06-14T04:36:00.003-07:002012-06-14T06:51:13.106-07:00Hotel, Niddastrasse<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<i>Wollen Sie dieses Hotel einmal kurz beschreiben?</i><br />
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<i>Das ist ein chinesisches Hotel mit fast 75 Zimmern – das war es eigentlich.</i></div>
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(It is a Chinese Hotel, almost 75 rooms, that's it really)</div>
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<i>Ok. Wir befinden uns im mittleren Teil der Niddastraße, unten Richtung Osten ist eher ein Bankenviertel mit Hochhäusern, nach Westen ist der Bahnhof. Da gibt es auch Designhotels. Dieser mittlere Teil ist zwischen Karlsplatz und Elbestraße. Wissen Sie, was für andere Nutzungen es in dieser Straße gibt – Hotels, Läden, Geschäfte?</i></div>
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(OK. We are in the middle part of the Niddastrasse, here to the east a banking district, with highrise, to the west, the Railway Station. There are designer hotels there. This section is between Karlsplatz and Elbestrasse. Do you know what other uses exist in the street - hotels, shops, businesses?)</div>
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<i>Sie wissen, dass es andere Hotels gibt?</i></div>
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(You know about the other hotels?)</div>
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<i>Ja, oben das Elbehotel...</i></div>
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(Yes, up there the Elbe Hotel)</div>
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<i>Und nebenan ist ein Spielcasino...</i></div>
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(And adjacent is a Betting Shop-casino)</div>
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<i>Ja, ja!</i></div>
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(Oh yes!)</div>
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<i>Gibt es etwas an dieser Straße, das Sie mögen oder nicht mögen?</i></div>
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(Is there something about this street, which you like or dislike?)</div>
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<i>Was ich nicht mag ist klar – diese Seite und diese Leute.</i></div>
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(What I dislike is clear - this side and these people)</div>
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<i>Welche Leute sind das?</i></div>
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(Which people?)</div>
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<i>Die Leute nehmen Drogen, und jeden Tag am Nachmittag ab 17 Uhr treffen die sich alle hier.</i></div>
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(These people take drugs, and every afternoon at 5pm, they all meet here)</div>
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<i>Und machen sie Ihnen Probleme?</i></div>
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(And do they cause you any trouble?)</div>
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<i>Eigentlich nicht. Aber unsere Gäste sind meistens Ausländer, die kennen nicht so viel von</i></div>
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<i>Deutschland. Und diese Straße und die Leute sehen schlimm aus.</i></div>
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(Not really. But our guests are mostly foreigners, they don't know much about Germany. And this street and these people look bad.)</div>
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These routes provide vital arteries for London’s commercial traffic, in addition to their place, function and importance for pedestrians and cyclists. In considering lower speed limits on such routes, therefore, the potential benefits in terms of both safety and liveability of our town centres needs to be taken into consideration alongside the important transport functions these routes perform...</i>"</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In a recent letter from <a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/1638.aspx" target="_blank">TfL Streets</a>, this statement suggests that, in the difficult business of balancing place and movement, the "reality" of managing TRLN roads (</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Transport for London Road Network - the </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">strategic arterial routes) is complex, implying that it may be difficult to change. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is the "commercial traffic" transport function and the average speed of "commercial traffic" </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(higher that 20mph? - usually default of 30mph in built-up areas) </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">more important than walkability and liveability of high streets? For what reason does this (historical, commercial) motorised movement take precedence over place in TfL Streets approach?</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The TfL Streets response above does not answer my original question about the effect of 20mph limits on journey time reliability (as part of the <a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/11351.aspx" target="_blank">smoothing traffic flow</a> agenda) on TRLN roads. I have followed my question with another enquiry about TfL Streets' methodology for balancing movement and place (see Manual for Streets <a href="http://www.homezones.org.uk/public/guidance/documents/MfSin60secs.pdf" target="_blank">MfS</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yesterday at </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">New London Architecture gallery</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, Sir Peter Rogers from the Mayor's office talked about regenerating 90 outer London High Streets where people live and work. Case studies were presented from <a href="http://willesdenwindows.com/" target="_blank">Willesden Green</a>, Streatham / West Norwood, and Brentford. Transport - and TfL Streets management of high streets - were hardly mentioned until the question was raised at the end. <a href="http://www.designforlondon.gov.uk/who-we-are/people/#details/mark-brearley" target="_blank">Mark Brearley</a>, head of Design for London, cautiously broached the topic of the ongoing problem of "recalibrating" the motorised traffic balance with place quality in the public realm.</span></span>nomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-73063695378378045162012-03-01T01:45:00.001-08:002012-03-01T09:03:36.875-08:00Roads and Streets in London - and King's Cross Square<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">I enquired about the public realm function of central London TfL roads, considering that the professional highway planning guide, the Manual for Streets (2010) calls roads with an important public realm function - ie. most in central London - 'streets' for planning purposes.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Transport for London gave me this advice:</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The guidance published by TfL on streetscape principles (“Streetscape Guidance 2009: A guide to better London streets” , <a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/publications/4858.aspx" target="_blank">link</a>) applies to any public highway managed by TfL (TfL red routes such as Euston Road) and it therefore goes beyond the traditional classification between roads and streets.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"></span> </div><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The guidance states that the principles can also applied to any roads in the Capital and some boroughs might use it for their areas. Finally the guidance called “Better Streets” (<a href="http://www.london.gov.uk/greatoutdoors/docs/better-streets.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a>) published by the Mayor of London does not distinguish either between streets and roads and consider TfL red routes as “streets” (<a href="http://www.london.gov.uk/greatoutdoors/docs/better-streets.pdf" target="_blank">link</a>). The principles defined in this document can apply to any public space in London (such as King’s Cross public square).</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Documents published by London Borough of Camden and the Mayor of London (</span><a href="http://camden.gov.uk/redirect?oid=%5Bcom.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.Article%3A%7Bid%3D2563530%7D%5D" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Local Development Framework</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">, Unitary Development Plan, London Borough of Islington and </span><a href="http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Mayor’s London Plan</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">) guide the development of King's Cross Central including King’s Cross square. I would advise you to contact London Borough of Camden to find out about specific design principles applied when King’s Cross square planning application was reviewed."</span></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">I found that the Mayor of London in 2009 included King's Cross Square as one of "London's <a href="http://www.designforlondon.gov.uk/what-we-do/all/mayors-great-spaces-1" target="_blank">Great Spaces</a>" but at that stage the street (A503) was not part of the square, nor was this clear in Camden's LDF, its UDP or its SPD. The Planning Applications (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">2010/3152/P</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">, 2011/0019/P, 2011/1961/P</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and </span></span>2011/4782/P<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">) for King's Cross Square </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24039415-its-bad-news-as-kings-cross-kiosk-is-forced-to-move.do" target="_blank">discussed in the news</a>) </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">are on Camden's planning applications <a href="http://planningrecords.camden.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer17/Generic/StdResults.aspx?PT=Planning%20Applications%20On-Line&SC=Application%20Number%20is%202011/4782/P%20and%20Date%20Validated%20is%20between%2001%20January%201922%20and%2031%20December%202012&FT=Planning%20Application%20Search%20Results&XMLSIDE=/Northgate/PlanningExplorer17/SiteFiles/Skins/camden/Menus/PL.xml&XSLTemplate=/Northgate/PlanningExplorer17/SiteFiles/Skins/camden/xslt/PL/PLResults.xslt&PS=10&XMLLoc=/Northgate/PlanningExplorer17/generic/XMLtemp/w5qpsc55epccvt45ybfb1n55/c9fa5cae-5744-45de-8414-5723781c0086.xml" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></span></span></div>nomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-9919438569961857612012-02-27T01:56:00.001-08:002012-02-27T02:18:12.792-08:00Bus Lane (Caledonian Road 120226 00.45)Returning from Covent Garden after midnight last Saturday by London hire cycle, I approached King's Cross to find all the parking stands fully occupied at hire stations in St Chad's Street, Belgrove Street and Ampton Street, and irritated, I made my way north to Killick Street, off Caledonian Road. As expected, the Killick street hire station was almost empty, so I parked and walked south on Caledonian Road at about 12.45am.<br />
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There was little activity in the street besides motor traffic around Wharfdale Road, but there were increasing numbers of revellers standing in the street as I passed Simmons and Keystone Crescent opposite the Tesco on the corner of Caledonia Street. There was a row of cars parked along the east side of Caledonian Road, almost to the junction of Pentonville Road, and there were many people in the street in front of the fast food shop and the Burrito place. There seemed to be activity around an event at Scala on the Kings Cross Bridge. In front of the line of parked BMWs and Mercedes saloons, a group of young Asian men with their arms around one another was standing looking quizzically at a tall black Islington parking warden with long curly hair, as she held up her compact digital camera to photograph the line of vehicles. "Bus Lane" she said to them. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/2049262005_ee5e600552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/2049262005_ee5e600552.jpg" width="267" /></a></div>from <a href="http://365londoners.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html" target="_blank">365 Londoners</a> <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Sand-O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Sand-O.jpg" width="277" /></a></div>from <a href="http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/02/22/william-craig-marshalls-itinerant-traders-ii/sand-o/" target="_blank">Wiliam Craig Marshall's 'Itinerant Traders' featured in Spitalfields Life</a>nomadologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03514272254037627854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322128807720978063.post-62029987573062619572012-02-26T09:19:00.003-08:002012-02-26T10:31:21.697-08:00Exhibition Road Single surface (draft)Street London inspection visit to Exhibition Road, a 'single surface scheme'<br />
(Background on new Street Design - Angela Saini on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xs8t" target="_blank">Thinking Streets BBC January 2012</a>)<br />
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Research recordings on-site 25 Feb 2012<br />
<b>(recording 120225.000)</b><br />
[<a href="http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/exhibitionroad.aspx" target="_blank">RBKC</a> Highway Engineer]...and that was because of the [CB??] that we put the parking in the centre of the road as opposed to the kerbside as well. <br />
The other thing was that we did reduce a number of the trees in Exhibition Road, and, again, we did actually cut some down, but we replaced more than we cut down, with semi-mature trees as well. All of the eight trees along there were all planted as part of the scheme, they came in from Holland and...<br />
<i>Traffic noise / about scooter / motorcycle parks (Question by Amanda UDG) </i><br />
There aren't any on Exhibition Rd but there are some down in South Kensington <br />
<i>..and there's no cycle parks up this end...?</i><br />
No, you are right and yes, that is something that we are reconsidering, actually..<br />
<i>Sorry!</i><br />
Thats alright..<br />
<i>There is a huge number of resident car parks here with no cars on them - have you got an opportunity to re-visit that assessment and perhaps take some of them out? </i><br />
Absolutely, yes, that's right.<br />
<i>And maybe put in more trees?</i><br />
Trees are a little bit tricky actually, you've got services, and we've also got the tunnel and that sort of thing.<br />
But, yes we are in a sort of assessment period, we only finished the scheme in October last year. So we'll wait and see how it beds in.<br />
As I said before, vehicle speeds are a little higher than we'd ike especially on the section and particulaly in the evening as well. So we migfht have to come back and tweak to do that - maybe just enforcement..<br />
and also some of the turning bans of the A4 are being ignored as well, so we have to look at that.<br />
So the other thing is we are getting requests for more benches down the south section as well - coming out of the Tube station you've got nowhere to sit. There's a bit of resistance from residents there though, because they tend to attract undesirables as well...<br />
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1'55" author in informal discussion with Q*<br />
[Practicing urban designer working at an architecture firm in London who studied at University of Queensland, Brisbane]<br />
"We don't really do benches any more, do we?"<br />
5'11'' <br />
Single surface is designed so pedestrians can cross but not walk up and down the carriageway<br />
5'30"<br />
People seems to be doing the same speed<br />
5'55"<br />
How do people know where to park and where not to, here? For example, is that guy there doing the right or wrong thing?<br />
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<b>(recording 120225.001)</b><br />
...background in planning or architecture? Architecture actually... <br />
2'59"<br />
<i>There's no signage here saying no left turn.</i><br />
[Engineer]<br />
Back there at the traffic lights there is, no left turn on the actual traffic signals there. We are looking at getting some road markings put in and possibly even building up the kerb..<br />
<i>Is that what all that temporary stuff is for?</i> (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nomadologist/6928994699/in/photostream" target="_blank">cnr Cromwell & Exhib Road</a>)<br />
Yes, its taking a while for people to get used to it.<br />
3'20"<br />
This also marks the point where the character of the road changes - from this point north its more to do with museums - from this point south you've got lots of cafes and restaurants and shops. We are in the process of issuing tables and chairs licences to allow people to use the space in a better way kind of thing.<br />
These things you see here sticking out of the road, they are called lanterns, and what they do is provide natural light to the tunnel, pedestrian tunnel underneath, and as part of the first stage of the scheme we actually removed them and refurbished the. They actually fell apart - they have been there since 1850, so it took a while to refurbish them.<br />
Also the street lighting's changed here its more in proportion with the scale of the buildings and that sort of thing as opposed to these big masts <br />
... they were expensive, they were £23000 each those lamp columns and the foundation is a huge great block of concrete, which was the first operation we did, to make sure they were all in line<br />
<i>As big as a tree root-bulb? </i><br />
Bigger than that, they are about 2metres by 2metres, and we had to allow services to go through them.<br />
5'22"<br />
Basements were the biggest challenge on this job<br />
if you go anywhere near them they start leaking water, then you've got disputes with the owners...<br />
6'05"<br />
<i>Are the lights on all night?</i><br />
Yes I believe they are.<br />
Projectors cast light on the whole width of the road<br />
<i>So it is a shared lighting scheme?</i><br />
It is.<br />
7'07"<br />
We've only got minimal road markings<br />
[Amanda UDG]<br />
<i>The banding seems to encourage (motorists to turn diagonally)</i><br />
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<b>(recording 120225.002)</b><br />
<i>We are on the corner of Exhibition centre opposite the Ismaili Centre, Cromwell Road</i><br />
[Engineer]<br />
Well I tell you on the funding side of things<br />
Kensington and Chealsea 13 million pounds<br />
Mayor of London 14 million<br />
Westminster 1 million<br />
so they (Westminster) didn't put much money in at all<br />
for some reason they insisted on a more conventional layout (north of Prince Consort Road)<br />
Its more residential and<br />
It could have been a square<br />
Its a political thing<br />
The residents don't any other users to come up<br />
Is that because of litter?<br />
They pay 2 million pounds a bedroom<br />
The residents don't want the great unwashed hanging around<br />
2'06"<br />
[Engineer]<br />
Forty percent of the road is in Westminster, actually, that's from Imperial College Road<br />
So they did agree to this layout on part of the road... <br />
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<b>(recording 120223.003)</b><br />
[Engineer]<br />
The York Stone is all recycled that you currently are standing on at the moment, <br />
Again, before we did the work, there was guardrail running all over the place, lots of traffic lines, all that sort of thing, making it difficult for pedestrians to move around. Now we have taken all the guard railing out, we have got a straight across crossing. We have used york stone here, but we are getting people parking on it, which is why its a bit cracked in some places.<br />
In conclusion, the borough policy is trying to use wherever possible high quality materials and reducing street clutter.<br />
Thank you (applause)<br />
We are Street London, the young Urban Design Network and the Urban Design Group<br />
More tours coming up...<br />
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c.2008 (Google Streetview accessed 26 Feb 2012)<br />
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The shop had been open two weeks and the sign on the shopfront still said internet cafe - the letting agent's signboard was also still attached above the shopfront. In the window were some flyers advertising introductory offers, and there was a new-looking but inexpensively built set of three workstations with cabinets and mirrors. The packaging for three types of electric hairclippers were displayed on a high shelf alongside some computer-printed photographs of men modelling their haircuts, from the conservative businessman to the sculpted 'Turkish' style to the Anglo-student.<br />
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The barber Rajesh* explained in basic English that he was Nepali from Kathmandu, and had established this shop over the last fortnight with daily opening hours of 10.30am - 8pm. He explained that the previous customer was a Bengali with whom he had been speaking Urdu. The barber was a Hindi, the other man a Muslim, who appeared to me to have been testing the barber's abilities. I found Rajesh to be thorough and skilled. He enquired about my background and family and he explained that he had been living in East London for two years, while his wife and son were in Kathmandu.<br />
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There was a regular passing footfall on the pavement outside and occasional glances through the glass shopfront on this sunny Saturday. Outside the shop was a sandwichboard stand with four colour A4 flyers advertising the shop. I promised to mention the shop to friends and neighbours.<br />
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