#cityexperience

[manuelmuehlbauer]

Sunset Series #Melbourne #Park #Cityexperience #Urbanadventure

[sarahlharrison1]

I found this fabulous photo on my phone from #CityExperience #loveit #iforgot #graffiti #graffitiart #streetart #beautiful 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 (at Melbourne, Australia)

[transdisciplinarycuriosity]

The tech sector is, increasingly, embracing the language of urban planning — town hall, public square, civic hackathons, community engagement. So why are tech companies such bad urbanists? Tech companies are scrambling to move into cities.. Tech tenants now fill 22 percent of all occupied office space in San Francisco.... But they might as well have stayed in their suburban corporate settings for all the interacting they do with the outside world. The oft-referred-to “serendipitous encounters” that supposedly drive the engine of innovation tend to happen only with others who work for the same company. Which is weird.

Interesting Op Ed in the NYTimes from Allisson Arieff about the impact of tech companies' habit of keeping their employees, indoors, creating their own little city, on the city itself. 

[transdisciplinarycuriosity]

A rainbow crosswalk in the city of Utrecht.

Which apparently was installed to show that Utrecht is a gay friendly city.

[transdisciplinarycuriosity]

By adding the word "LOOK" on crosswalks, and by putting posters across the city.

I wonder if it actually works. And I hope someone does a study to see whether people look more. It does remind me of the look right look left written on the pavement at intersections in London. - An intervention probably also directed at tourists.   

But see how uncluttered the rest of this London crosswalk is compared to the NY one?