???
Following the tread, people are obviously expressing 'concerns', or whatever is
general negativity and resistance called, about the location of the
installation. And installation in the city [thus urban] it is, like it or not,
as are other, similar, smaller projects with limited durability. People, on
the other hand, are free to call it whatever, in the process of familiarizing
with these ideas. Let us be reminded that yes, these things might be all abuzz
in UCity of Philly but they are not news to other cities [globally] and
certainly not to urban and landscape planers, architects and designers, who
created the term for the ease of communication some years ago.
Ana
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:34:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Parking Spaces @ 43rd & Baltimore
From: dill...@dillernet.com
To: UnivCity@list.purple.com
Nobody would want to use that parklet other than customers of GreenLine. Lets
just call a spade a spade. Urban Installation?
-andy
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Summer All Ready <archange...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Why such overreaction?Park-let is not a 'park'. it's an urban installation
achieved by let.ing go of park.ing spaces, and turning them into temporary
social.izing spaces [seats, benches...] Let's open our minds. It is better for
its 'limited] longevity that it is next, or even in extension, to a commercial
place, like a coffee shop, than 'on its own' somewhere where it could be
vandalized overnight.
