• SARGEx117@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d love to see a video that takes this concept, but walks around with it. Literally

    Start by getting out of a car on the side of the street or in a parking lot, and when the camera gets out of the car, all the “car areas” drop away, leaving only the paths you’re “allowed” to take. Tiny sections right against the parking spaces, zebra crossings, sidewalks, all normal (or in this style).

    Camera goes about a normal day, and as they’re looking around, all the car designated areas are just voids.

    Bonus points if areas you’re technically not supposed to walk are boxed off in like a video game style DO NOT ENTER wall. For instance, there are sections of my city with NO sidewalks, up against private residences. So your options are walk over people’s yards or in the street. In this scenario, it’s a void against a wall. Good luck.

    I’m just thinking about walking to get to downtown, and there’s no way I could do it without being somewhere I’m “not allowed”. And imagining the massive voids everywhere is a bit depressing. Not that roads and parking lot deserts are any less depressing… I need to go walk in the woods for a bit…

    • Sharkwellington@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m just thinking about walking to get to downtown, and there’s no way I could do it without being somewhere I’m “not allowed”.

      If I want to cross the 4-lane road just outside my apartment, there is simply no legal way to do it. There is an intersection but no crosswalks and no way to request to cross. I shouldn’t have to have a vehicle just to get from one side of the road to the other.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Coincidentally it is the same space that is used by bikes. Or does the artist picture them as combat-biking on the pavement?

    • Herr Woland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Bikes take much less space and they will go around people, it’s not uncommon for roads to be shared for bikes and pedestrians at the same time. On the other hand you risk getting hit by a car if you walk into the streets, thus the metaphor of falling down a chasm.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This has circled around the internet for years now. I remember the last time I saw it people were losing their minds over how “reductive” it was. Blew me away

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Also a depiction of how much of that space is actually paid for by car owners with registration fees. Someone has to pay the road fees to maintain all that walking space too.

    Also to consider that the way the shops are build like that is because of cars not foot traffic. If it were a walking space that was explicitly built for walking and then was actually ‘surrendered’ to cars it would have been built quite differently to begin with. So it is far from accurate.