??? 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: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> 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.
