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Hyannis' inexpensive painted crosswalks (see last post) transform into a much grander walkway, using a serpentine waveform to lure visitors to the harbor.

#designmatters #placemaking #hyannis #pedestrian #streetscape

How does a waterfront tourist community dress up an ugly 6-point intersection that divides downtown from the harbor? On the cheap? With paint that suggests brick and references water. Hyannis, MA.

#designmatters #pedestrian #complete streets #hyannis #placemaking

Historic photo of newly-built Route 13 in Salisbury, MD. The (mostly empty) parking lots in this picture are almost as large as the entire downtown... even including the giant chunks of downtown they would later tear down to build more parking.

#placefail #salisbury #sby

World’s loneliest tomato. #PlaceFail

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World's loneliest potato. #PlaceFail

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Baltimore’s 29th Street was converted to one-way in the 1950s, yet the city still lovingly changes the bulbs in the old stoplight facing the other way. “A useless and defunct object attached to someone’s property and aesthetically maintained." @99percentinvisible @romanmars

#thomasson #99pi #99percentinvisible #roman mars #romanmars #baltimore #remington

The 4/14/16 Democratic Debate is being held at the "Duggal Greenhouse" -- an old factory at the Brooklyn Naval Yard where Advanced Placemaking helped with the adaptive reuse. During demolition, we unexpectedly discovered a historic metal cannon buried under the concrete slab, and made sure it was preserved. That was fun.

#urbanmysteries #hillary clinton #bernie sanders #brooklyn #naval yard

"If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design." - Dr. Rolf Speth, CEO of Jaguar. #PlaceFail

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#PlaceFail in a suburban office park.

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