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As so often in the news: A 4x4 in the inner-city jumped the curb, and struck three pedestrians who "were trying to get out of the way of the car". One person got so mangled, she might loose her leg.The non-profit organization LivableStreets Alliance “..challenges people to think differently and to demand a system that balances transit, walking, and biking with automobiles. We promote safe, convenient, and affordable transportation for all users in urban Boston.”Watch their CONTESTED STREETS, the trailer shows how people have lost public space to the combustion engine. "Central to the story is a comparison of New York to what is experienced in London, Paris and Copenhagen."
In the period of the Global Village, numerous portals direct attention to event spaces in various cities. The globalised content, usually consumed in theme parks reduces urban space into one opaque mass. One could be anywhere, which is everywhere. The endless ever-sameness commands most of the digital documentation.
Endangered are unique places and modes of appropriation that distill the specificity of particular spaces. Do you know of such places?
Image:Berlin, Höfe
The occurences of crimes in Chicago can be tracked on a freely browsable database. The site is not an official source afiliated with the Police. The non-profit site by Holovaty and Miner is utilising Citizen ICAM and the official database of reported crimes.Blotter follows the weekly reported illegal activities.One could use such data to ascertain life quality, values of streets, regions etc. When will other places get access to data like this?
Chicagocrime
Thanks to Radar
As so often in the news: A 4x4 in the inner-city jumped the curb, and struck three pedestrians who "were trying to get out of the way of the car". One person got so mangled, she might loose her leg.
