Combining new transportation methods that encourage the principles of a healthy life style with traditional roads can raise land values, attract investment and activate the urban environment.
new traspotation and traditional roads, these two ways mix together can increase land values, which improve city environment and prople wellbeing.
Although originally conceived for Manchester, I believe that Park+Jog may be adapted to any city worldwide and serve as an example for how Cycle Space could lay the ideological foundation to change our cities for the better.
park+jog is a great idea for city, develop our city better, hope it can come true in the future.
Henley Halebrown Rorrison (HHbR).
This volume presents a number of buildings that are often inserted into the dense urban texture of London with a self-assertive, poetic expression.
Active transportation routes and linear parks, on the other hand, regenerate their surroundings, bringing activity and value to blighted sections of the city. They also radically alter the political situation for the suburb and its inevitable commute.
The bustling cities are usually very crowded, and they also have an impact on people’s moods. These innovative lines and parks have brought vitality to the city and brought vitality to people.
What is striking about these parks is the positive impact they can have on their surrounding neighbourhoods, particularly when one considers the alternative. With roads, be it a dual carriageway or a street, comes heavy traffic, noise and pollution, at the expense of those who live and work around it. In the case of a High Street we forego certain types of shops, cafés and restaurants that engender a street life. At the scale of the dual-carriageway the A40 that tears through west London illustrates beautifully how dramatic the blight on homes can be, as this Mid-20th Century residential avenue has been transformed into a slum wrapped around a congested commuter road. These zones lack the 'density' of the city centre and the space of the suburb. And, each successive wave of Greenfield development adds to the expanse of this grey space.
The positive impact of these parks decrease heavy traffic, noise and pollution.
Big Dig
utopian
Unrealistic ideal， which means it is unachievable but still a ideal.
It envisioned a 1km stretch of dual carriageway between Salford University and Manchester city centre as a 4-lane linear Park. One lane is grassed, another a water channel, another sand and the last a running track. Commuters leave their cars in a multi-storey Car (P)Ark. The interchange also incorporates a suburban train station, cycle docking station, stables, and a boathouse and changing rooms. From the Car (P)Ark commuters head east into Manchester walking, jogging, cycling, rollerblading, horse riding, swimming or rowing. The Park terminates at a Suit Park where commuters can shower, change and get a coffee. (The word “suit” refers to the business suit). Eight hours later, on their way home, commuters deposit their clothes and return through the Park, to the interchange to collect their car or catch a train. The scheme could be extended to each of the radial routes into Manchester and at intervals these Parks could link, completing a comprehensive green commuter infrastructure. Save this picture!
this paragraph shows me a very convivial and dynamic scene， grassed, water channel, sand, running track, jogging, cycling, rollerblading, horse riding, swimming and rowing. These words make me very welling to go and play.
Imagine that the Boris Bike docking stations outside railway stations and in key public spaces might incorporate general cycle parking. Thus the Cycle City would bring with it a new building type – the multistory cycle park. Fietsenstalling, a multistorey cycle park outside Amsterdam’s Centraal rail station, with its Escher-like pattern of steel decks that suspend over the canal, is a dramatic model. Its very presence is didactic. It is persuasive.
The model on this picture is very interesting. In the first picture, the bike is stored on the wall by lifting. In the second picture, the multistorey cycle park reduces space.
The day of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral at St.Paul’s Cathedral gave me an indication. For security reasons, much of the Square Mile was closed to vehicular traffic; the streets were preserved for the pedestrian and the cyclist. What I remember about that day was the sense of calm, how quiet it was, and how generous the streets actually felt.
This passage gave me a very calm feeling. What would happen to a city without a car?
Cycling offers us, for the first time in more than a century and a half, the chance to build an infrastructure that will bring with it significant public health improvements. In our auto-centric world, we have unprecedented levels of health problems - obesity, diabetes, etc - all associated with our sedentary lifestyles. Cycling should mean a fitter population and a longer life expectancy, which would take pressure off the National Health Service and bring huge economic benefits. It would of course also reduce energy consumption.
Cycling is an infrastructure, Very simple but very powerful, give the benefit of many people. Not only convenient, but also health and reduce energy consumption.
Bazalgette’s solution was to construct a series of sewers that would run parallel to the Thames, both north and south of the river, collecting the sewage and ensuring the drinking water that was drawn from the river was clean.
Parallel pipes can separate sewage from river water and also it protecting marine life.
not just for its contribution to public health but also for its potential parallels to Cycle Space. For much of its history London had been associated with poor living conditions and disease. By the late 1850s the scale of the city was making things worse: London’s sewage was deposited into the River Thames, out of which the city’s drinking water was being collected.
The discharge ofsewage into the river is a very bad thing, which has seriously affected the future survival and development of human.
River Thames
Corbusian Modernism
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/le-corbusier-modern-architecture-design
Portland
https://www.portlandoregon.gov, this link is the official website of the city of Portland, Oregon
was the clearest indication to date that cycling was no longer just for a minority of fanatics but a healthy, efficient and sustainable mode of transport that city planners wanted in their armoury. There are now more than 8,000 Boris Bikes and 550+ docking stations in Central London. And the trend’s not anomalous to London: Wikipedia reports that there are 535 cycle-share schemes in 49 countries, employing more than half a million bikes worldwide.
Cycling is a healthy, efficient and sustainable mode compared to cars. And these numbers show how Boris Bikes are popular in London, and even the world.
“Boris Bike”
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/santander-cycles/how-it-works, the link shows the steps of how the bikes work.
The 2010 launch of the “Boris Bike” - London’s cycle hire scheme, named after mayor Boris Johnson
people can hire a bike from as little as £2. Simply go to any docking station with your bank card and touch the screen to get started. that's very convenient, you don't need to book - hire a bike, ride it where you like, then return it to any docking station.
Lord & Taylor
Lord & Taylor is a department store in the United States, the oldest department store in the country. Headquartered in New York City, it is a subsidiary of the oldest commercial corporation in North America, the Hudson's Bay Company.Lord & Taylor is a department store in the United States, the oldest depLord & Taylor is a department store in the United States, the oldest department store in the country. Headquartered in New York City, it is a subsidiary of the oldest commercial corporation in North America, the Hudson's Bay Company.artment st fromre in the country. Headquartered in New York City, it is a subsidiary of the oldest commercial corporation in North America, the Hudson's Bay Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_%26_Taylor
furnishings
There, housewives would throw away their Rosie the Riveter coveralls and reclaim their “femininity” with new dresses, fashion accessories, and beauty products.
At that time, women began to have their own thoughts. When they were free, they changed their overalls into good-looking dresses.
But 60 years ago, these same department stores, particularly the new branches installed in fledging suburban shopping malls, were the way to the future.
60 years ago, people believed that department stores would flourish in the future.
“Today, we shop as if we know about everything that we’re shopping for, but in the mid-century, you trusted your department store.”
nowadays, people know more channels for getting informations, such as knowing a lot of informations from the Internet. It is more troublesome to go to a physical store to ask a counter. But in the past, people could only understand information through other people.
Often, the mall’s anchors, the big chain department stores, are the first to go. It seems that the 2008 recession and dominance of the Internet—where you can buy anything and everything with a few clicks—have taken their toll on brick-and-mortar behemoths like JCPenney, Sears, and even Macy’s.
The 2008 financial crisis may have caused this problem. A few clicks mean shop online, it is much more convenient than walk to shopping mall.
As the Computer Age thrusts us into the future, would-be mall rats are spending all their time on Facebook, and the breath-taking range of products, once so meticulously displayed for our delight, is being crammed into our PCs, tablets, and smartphones.
With the development of technology, most groups now choose to shop online.
Search the phrase, “dead malls,” and you’ll find photo after photo of tiled walkways littered with debris, untended planters near the darkened rest areas for bored dads, and empty indoor storefronts—the discolored shadows of their missing lighted signs lingering like ghosts.
these words: debris, untended planters, darkness, discolored shadows, empty, ghosts, are how scary to hear. Shows retail stores and shopping mall is on the way to grave.
Current numbers predict more than 200 existing big malls will collapse in the next 10 years.
more and more stores will get collapsed in next ten years. so this sentence makes reader wanna keep reading this article and get know how it happen, from retail parade to zombie mall.
he once-vibrant shopping mall has one foot in the grave these days. About 20 percent of the 2,000 largest U.S. malls were failing in 2008, and by 2012, only 1,513 remained in operation.
these number are scary. Since the beginning of 2008, the growth of this number has shown that physical stores are slowly declining.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River
What Surrounds a Legend? A 3,000-Pound Gilt Frame
title gives reader a general brief of what is including in the article, and also attractive readers' sight.
The right to cultural equity is broadly acknowledged within the international community. The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts for all people “the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.” And the U.N. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights asserts the right of all people “to take part in cultural life,” as well as the responsibility of governments to “achieve the full realization of this right [through]…the conservation, the development, and the diffusion of science and culture.”
the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizing the importance of cultural education, not only culture but also art
Statement on Cultural Equity
https://www.americansforthearts.org/about-americans-for-the-arts/statement-on-cultural-equity
Exhibitions at the Southern Branch serve at least two important functions: to educate viewers about other cultures, and to reveal that cultural purity is a myth.
Exhibitions makes viewer know the outside world and open their sight.
Drawing nearly 1.5 million visitors in 2016, its first year, the Southern Branch doesn’t just promote globalization in the abstract, it also positions Jiayi to reap its benefits
the southern branch not only get benefits from it, but also Bringing information to the world and increasing Taiwan’s popularity。
Unlike the older National Palace Museum, Taipei, which showcases objects from the imperial collections of past Chinese dynasties, the Southern Branch is forward-looking, laying the groundwork for a narrative of pan-Asian identity.
shows the difference between the southern branch and the National Palace Museum.
The inclusion of a permanent exhibition about tea culture across Asia offered an additional point of entry to residents of these counties, where tea cultivation is a major sector of the local economy.
Taiwanese tea originated in Fujian, China, and it has a history of about 200 years. In late Qing dynasty Taiwan, tea was the largest producer and exporter of tea. It also promoted the development of northern Taiwan and shifted the focus of the industry from the original south to the north. This has an important influence on the development of Taiwan's culture.
a piece of jade carved into the form of the green vegetable—would make their rounds at the Southern Branch and attract local visitors.
Jadeite is a type of jade found in the mountains stretching from Yünnan to Myanmar. It comes in ochre to brilliant green, echoing the colors of the kingfisher bird, hence the alternate name "kingfisher jade".
crowd-pleasing Jadeite Cabbage
https://www.npm.gov.tw/exh96/Dazzling/descriptions04_en.html
To that end, museum officials transferred some of the institution’s most popular attractions to the Southern Branch and offered free admission to residents of three southern counties for the first three months after its opening.
this sentence indicates some ways to help southern Taiwan people. the 3 month admission makes residents get to know the branch.
southern branch of the National Palace museum
National Palace museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Branch_of_the_National_Palace_Museum
By creating a new southern branch of the National Palace museum, the government would correct cultural policies that privileged the more developed, metropolitan North, where Taipei is located, over the more rural, agricultural South.
it ism a great decision, helps southern people of Taiwan, increase their knowladge.
Proposed in 2001 by former museum director Tu Cheng-sheng, the project had an explicit mission to address “the cultural equity between Northern and Southern Taiwan.”
this change influence all Taiwan's people, either northern and southern. it shows how important of cultural education through Taiwan equally
At the beginning of the new millennium, Taiwan’s highest legislative body, the Legislative Yuan, announced an ambitious project to provide all citizens with equal access to national cultural heritage.
America should learn from Taiwan, maybe open several library for all citizens for free, equal access can lead the poor to upper level, increase their knowladge.
the role of Taiwan’s cultural policy also shifted—from elitism toward inclusivity and from cultural chauvinism toward cosmopolitanism.
Taiwan changed their culture from singe to multiple, accept more informations.
As Taiwanese society grew more democratic from the 1970s onward, and as Taiwanese identity grew more distinct from Mainland China,
In 1970, the structure of Taiwan’s society was increasingly diversified, but people in mainland China was still close in culture.
While a New York or Washington D.C. resident can choose from dozens of free museums and cultural institutions where they can interact with art from across the globe, residents of rural America might be hard-pressed to reach a single one.
it is a truth, telling people the gap of wealth, it also shows how the difference happen of culture and knowledge between rich people and rural people.
The National Palace Museum, Taipei, is recognized globally as the leading research institution for Chinese art, and the cultural objects housed in it have lent legitimacy to the Taipei government’s claims that it is the true steward of Chinese culture.
Taiwan is part of china, the museum isn't open for free so not suits for poor people.
Since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Party fled to Taiwan with imperial treasures in tow as the Communist Party took over Mainland China, cultural stewardship has been a first-order concern for the Taiwanese government.
Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party, as well as a close ally of Sun Yat-sen's. Chiang became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT following the Canton Coup in early 1926. Having neutralized the party's left wing, Chiang then led Sun's long-postponed Northern Expedition, conquering or reaching accommodations with China's many warlords.
In Taiwan, a robust East Asian democracy that last January elected its first female president, cultural equity is serious business—and it offers a strong model for the U.S. to consider.
cultural equity is very important, male and female are equal
It has also bolstered a narrative of haves and have-nots, pitting the so-called coastal elites against “heartland” America.