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最近我一直在我的城市罗利四处走动,新出现的标志告诉我走到这里或那里需要多长时间,这让我感到兴奋。从这些标志——简单的设计、塑料结构、绑在电线杆上——我可以看出它们不是市政工程。

太棒了:游击方向标志。

在一个需要标志来告诉你往哪里走的文化中——而且你只能通过秘密行动才能得到它们——这可能令人绝望,但包括其规划部门在内的大部分罗利都认为这对一个试图重塑其规模和场所感的城市来说是进一步的好消息。BBC的这段精彩视频讲述了这个故事


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如何让美国人步行

这项事业简直堪称 brilliant。马特·托马苏洛是北卡罗来纳州立大学和教堂山北卡罗来纳大学的景观建筑和城市规划专业的研究生,他创建了一家名为Walk Raleigh的小企业,并以这个名义在罗利市中心周围安装了 27 个标志,在黑暗的掩护下将它们绑在杆子上。

“步行到格伦伍德南区需要 18 分钟,”一个紫色标志上写着,箭头指向罗利的一个热门娱乐区;“步行到罗利城市公墓需要 7 分钟,”一个绿色标志上写着,箭头指向罗利最早的一些市民的遗骸所在地,这个地点经常被忽视。当然,每个标志都有一个二维码,链接到地图。

托马苏洛的想法是让人们以分钟为单位思考,这使得步行看起来很明智,而不是以英里为单位思考,后者会立即让人联想到汽车。虽然这些标志是未经批准的——并且已被拆除——但它们持续了一个多月,罗利规划主管米切尔·西尔弗称其“非常酷”。《大西洋月刊》当地报纸塞拉俱乐部当地电视台和一个当地文化网站都对此表示赞赏,而一个已经在按照完整街道指南进行规划的城市,又朝着正确的方向迈进了一步。

托马苏洛的公司cityfabric之前就致力于让人们关注周围环境,例如使用城市地图作为服装和装饰的素材。他还刚刚在纽约开展了一个名为North Is That Way的项目,该项目涉及指向北方的标志。《大西洋城市》中的故事谈到了其他游击公民项目——花园、标志等等——但遗漏了另一个项目:纽约废弃公用电话亭中的游击图书馆

这些电话亭和其他游击项目提醒我们,尽管改善城市——以及改善步行性——的运动主要关注健康和效率,但其意义远不止于此。托马苏洛已将“North Is That Way”作为自发干预项目参加了威尼斯双年展。也就是说,托马苏洛的观点与其说是功利主义的,不如说是艺术性的:重要的是要知道你在哪里。重要的是要知道你要往哪个方向走。而且步行就是更好。

 

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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