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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Visual Art "Scale is the issue of our time."

Posted by on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:00 PM

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I've been giving that comment, by public artist Cheryl dos Remedios in a recent interview, some thought. Here she is talking about her LIV Project, which I devoted my column to this week—essentially, she is planning to redesign the street grid of Seattle.

 

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I'm sorry, but my Star is firmly affixed to my belly and it's staying there.
Posted by Will in Seattle on January 14, 2009 at 4:21 PM
2
What's going to happen to those poor people when a bus comes down the street and runs them over?

Posted by H!E!L!P! on January 14, 2009 at 4:40 PM
3
They'll be picked up by the Lorax and used as fertilizer.
Posted by Will in Seattle on January 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM
4
Wow -- that street suddenly looks so wide in the photo. I wish we could take all the streets and build on them (or at least 90 percent of them) leaving only the sidewalks as transportation corridors. The city would become dense and walkable like Venice.
Posted by BP on January 14, 2009 at 10:25 PM
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to learn more about aLIVe go to http://www.greatcity.org/campaigns/stree…
Posted by Allison on January 15, 2009 at 10:49 AM
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@4,

How so? Hills, weather, and the distance between points would remain unchanged.

In other words, you could build to downtown-level densities from Roxbury to 145th, but it wouldn't make it any easier to walk from Downtown to Ballard.

Posted by Mr. X on January 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM

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