Showing posts with label red light player. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red light player. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2012

The red light player


Every detail in the city should show respect for human dignity and reflect that everything human is sacred - Enrique Penalosa


Streets are not all there is to the crime story. But they are a barometer for deeper threads in the urban fabric. The poorly designed or ill-managed street is the hostile, uninviting territory of no-man's land. Over and over that's where crime opportunities show up. 

How do we make engaging our experience in such menial landscapes? Like waiting at a pedestrian  crossing. 

Charles Landry believes the creative city takes many forms. I've shown examples such as street pianos and intersection painting.

Here is another.