Urban code 100 lessons for understanding the city /cAnne Mikoleit, Moritz Pürckhauer
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
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- People walk in the sunshine
- Street vendors are positioned according to he path of the sun
- Stret vendors facilitate pedestrian movement
- Safe surroundings increase porfits
- High tornover makes up for high rent
- Rents rise with increasing pedestrian density
- Global shops sell their wares on popular streets
- Salespeople possess analytical knowledge of the district
- Passersby have an intuitive knowledge of the district
- Familiar chain stores are landmarks
- Brand names attract people, people attract brand names
- Shops attract other shops
- Tourists carry bags
- Shops give away bags
- Street vendors complement the surrounding selection of shops
- Human traffic complies with shop opening times
- Street vendors reinforce fluctuations
- People attract people
- Places of concentration depend on places of emptiness
- Cars can park in niches
- Cars park on top of one another
- Street vendors follow wrecking balls
- Constant grids afford manifold patterns of movement
- Equal grids proveke unequal blocks
- Buildings outlive uses
- A block consistes of many buildings
- Each building has at least one entrance
- No entrance is the same as any other entrance
- Entrances are meeting points
- Entrances are hurdles
- Shops attract pedestrians into the depths of the block
- Each building houses a business
- Small, specialized shops are essential to maintaining a district's vitality
- Display windows are mirrors
- Pedestrians are potential buyers
- Pedestrians walk on sidewalks
- The sidewalk is acellar entrance
- Wares are stored in the cellar
- Deliveries are limited to the early hours of the morning
- Delivery vans block the streets
- Locals and tourists use the streets at different times
- People walk more slowly in the afternoon
- Rituals result from parallel working hours
- The day to day happens on the street
- Workers wear work clothes
- Taxi divers live on the street
- Locals have dogs
- Every thirtieth pedestrian has gray hair
- Old people sit on benches
- Benches are found on public squares
- Playgrounds draw children in
- Not every playground is a playground
- Fathers meet fathers on playgrounds
- Small public squares are busier than large public squares
- Crossroads are public squares
- People wait at crossroads
- Hot dog stands smell of food
- Shops lead people
- Shop are new, houses are old
- Chop owners put their trash bags out on the street
- A city is made up of characteristic parts
- Streets were once communal spaces
- Public squares and niches create positive autside spaces
- People sit with their back protected
- Sitting people observe their environment
- Pedestrians lost in thought are not lost
- Torists satnd still, residents pass
- When people stand still, groups develop
- Groups attract people