by Jonathan Hiskes
Courtesy Tom BakerToday in happy urban eye
candy (previous installations here and here)
photographer Tom Baker gives us a look at what some Los Angeles thoroughfares would look like without
traffic.
Point being, L.A.‘s built environment is
one manner of placemaking—one that uses a lot of cement, takes up a lot of
space, and makes it difficult to get around in any fashion except driving or
busing. By removing vehicles and people, Baker dramatizes just how
out-of-scale these landscapes are to human bodies. They’re built for machines. Machines, people! (Says the guy on the streetcorner…) See Steve
Price for ideas on how to remake these kinds of places.
A few more from Baker’s
full
collection:
Courtesy Tom Baker
Courtesy Tom Baker
Courtesy Tom Baker
Related Links:
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‘Save transit’ rallies start up around U.S.