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veterans plaza = silver spring's high line?
What does downtown Silver Spring's Veterans Plaza and the High Line in New York have in common? I was looking through my photos yesterday and I noticed one big similarity:
I don't know if there's some big street-furniture company that manufactures green tables and chairs, but clearly they must get a lot of business. So the next time you're enjoying the sweet, sanitized sound of silence in Veterans Plaza, imagine yourself instead on the gritty-but-gentrifying streets of New York's Meatpacking District.
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Hey Dan -
I saw this article and immediately thought of you: http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/lost-in-a-building-design-can-affect-your-cognitive-map/12572/
(the original journal article is in the October 2010 issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science - I was able to access it through SAGE Online via my university's online library)
I've noticed a similar problem with architecturally "interesting" public spaces that are hard to navigate. I tend to navigate by landmarks, and get a bit befuddled in spaces that are low on both landmarks and signage. A decade ago, I spent a couple days in Toronto's underground walkway (PATH). It has probably changed since then, but at the time there were few landmarks and not a lot of signage. I spent most of that vacation lost!
Generic green patio furniture doesn't help! I've seen those same chairs and tables everywhere.
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Both of these site designers copycated Bryant Park - see http://www.ny-photos.com/images/bryant_park/goethe_9855_550wm.jpg
no surprise, google Bryant Park and man of the references are about its tremendous success as a public space
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