Articles on design from Elsewhere Journal.
Barcelona's celebrated street transformations remain a continuing urban project after the paving is finished. Their harder questions concern movement, maintenance and who can keep using the neighborhood as its desirability changes.
9 min readShade, air and stored heat give a courtyard its climatic work. The lesson of traditional buildings lies in the relationships they organize—relationships a contemporary project has to adapt to its own weather, occupants and surroundings.
9 min readA city's cycling network earns its value between the photographs: at junctions, outside shops, through winter maintenance and across municipal boundaries. Copenhagen's transferable lesson is the attention given to a trip someone needs to repeat.
9 min readA usable day out depends on reliable information, transport, facilities and a way to recover when something changes. Accessibility improves when a city connects those parts and lets people judge the details against their own requirements.
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