From the New Mobility Fine Arts Collection: The Inner Eye – Autumn 2016
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* Photo source: http://www.arch2o.com/pedestrian-bridge-in-shenzhen-china/
*This is commonly referred to as putting lipstick on a pig. Moral of the story: you can make it as pretty as you can, but at the end of the day it’s still a pig.”
Because they are so very bad at doing their purported job (i.e. protecting and providing a safe, comfortable and efficient walkable environment for people on foot (or cycle, or wheel chairs or for the elderly, encumbered, simply tired, etc., and because they so often fascinate architects and politicians, we intend from time to time in the NM Fine Arts Collection, show you other examples of how they (do not) work.
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* Have something that you think World Streets readers might appreciate as they wander the Fine Arts Collection in 2017? Post it to
Curator_FineArts@ecoplan.com and we will share it with some of our curators and eventually enter it into the Collection.
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