The people of Meghalaya, India have manipulated rubber trees to form braided bridges across the rivers. Frequent flooding rots wooden bridges, but living trees are durable and resist rotting. It can take 15 years or more to create a usable bridge of this kind.
Douglas Smith
This page is a collection of public space images from Michigan planning graduate students.
Please upload an image (plus your name, image location, image source, and a short caption). Use the link icon to add links. For instructions, see see your class email -- archived on ctools -- for instructions on how to post.)
Consider:
What makes a great (or alternately overrated, misunderstood or problematic) public space? There is a wide range of public spaces, of various sizes and uses, and of varying mixes of public and private use, ownership, control, access. I look forward to seeing a wide variety of images and places (and not just the predictable ones). Identify good public spaces in unusual locations, such as in low density suburbs or poor neighborhoods, or in reclaimed spaces.
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Click on images to see larger image size (high-res photos enabled: Photos without a click-through link will automatically link to a high-res version).
Please upload an image (plus your name, image location, image source, and a short caption). Use the link icon to add links. For instructions, see see your class email -- archived on ctools -- for instructions on how to post.)
Consider:
What makes a great (or alternately overrated, misunderstood or problematic) public space? There is a wide range of public spaces, of various sizes and uses, and of varying mixes of public and private use, ownership, control, access. I look forward to seeing a wide variety of images and places (and not just the predictable ones). Identify good public spaces in unusual locations, such as in low density suburbs or poor neighborhoods, or in reclaimed spaces.
Optional: add tags (keywords) to your entry.
Click on images to see larger image size (high-res photos enabled: Photos without a click-through link will automatically link to a high-res version).
November 19, 2013