A NICE PLACE TO WALKon looking: eleven ways with expert eyes

thomaz yuji baba

this is a public spacenext to my office. Broadway, a high dense commercial area

MY NAME IS FRED KENT. I AM THE FOUNDEROF THE ngo project for public spaces. i am also an photographer of public spaces and their users

today we gonna walk around!

people walks in a different wayway depending on the mood of the place.

even the small details as

a food cart changesthe flow of peopleand their moves

gyros!

kebab!

pizza!

the first

to understand how people

behaves in the public space

you must feel the city

thing to keep

in mind is that...

...time does notmatter!

open marketsare also a social

manner...

if youstop your

walking it mightmean that...

...to enhancespaces as a cultural hubin the city

...somethingis happeningin the space!

your walk getsinterrupted a lotdue to crowdsof people

sometimes walkingin some busy venuesof the city, such ascommercial streetscan be stressful

stores showcase attr

acts

people from the middl

e of

sidewalkif the str

eets aren’t large

enough, a crowd is

created

jan gehl, believes that a trully

liveable city shall

have pedestrian streets as a co

mmercial center.

this type of chaos is good for

the maintenance of

the public areas. However, it is

better to have

multiple points instead

of a single and realy

congested place.

nothingin the world ismore simple andmore cheap thanmaking cities thatprovide betterfor people

i rrationalize my

behavior by noting that crossing the street against the

traffic light makes me pay more atention to what i am doing.

there is alsosome kind of an urbanetiquette that leads youto walk in a manner that affects others. sometimesonly eye contact is enoughtto understand how to bear while walking

in the city, eye contact is carefully wielded

some research suggests that the very presence of signs, traffic lights, crosswalks, and raised curbs, all intended to make walking safer for the pedestrian in a car-filled city, actually make it less safe.

pedestriansacts quick and

fluid unconsciously.pedestrian jigs arelike a cooperative

dance.

their path andare unpredicable andchaotic. That lack ofsynchrony works inan harmonical way

jaywalkingis a responseof naked citiespolicies...

..that contributesto the spontaneityof the citizens

after all, cities are made for people, not for cars!

calico mingling, a dance by lucinda childs, represents the emotional expression replaced with simple actions as the walking of people and their movements.

the movie Koyaanisqatsi attempts to

timelapse the behavior of people and

how this may affect the balance of life

.

our language is in a state of

vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which

we live