Comments on: Could we unpave our streets ?

By: Edouard

Edouard — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:19:14 +0000

Thanks Daryl for your comment. It is too rare a pleasure. Hence the importance of what Franke did. For those who don't know why Franke gained some fame in the environmental sphere, please check out Paradise unpaved, a brilliant visual essay for an even more brilliant idea and endeavor !

By: Verda Vivo

Verda Vivo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:24:55 +0000

Probably one of the factors in material choice is speed – of cars, that is. However, one has only to hydroplane on a highway to realize that impermeable material may not be the best option. The other factor would be cost. I love the ideas in the Green Alleys Handbook. One of the things it illustrates is that homeowners have more of an impact on their own and adjacent property than they realize.

By: Edouard

Edouard — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:09:06 +0000

My dear Kiashu, I suspect you didn’t read correctly the article, albeit it was quite short.

Franke didn’t say we should put grass on our streets, just something more permeable. A subject you are agreeing with her.

I chose to illustrate the article with the lovely green streets of Akihabara as it was fitting the post’s topic… and as I found the picture interesting.

Please do have a look at the handbook from Chicago, it’s quite interesting.

By: Kiashu

Kiashu — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:00:43 +0000

Franke James must never have been to a football match.

Take a grassy area. Add a hundred people running over it, and you get a solid dirt area. Add rain, and you get knee-deep mud.

Not the lovely green presented here.

Which does not mean we need quite so much concrete in our cities as we have today…