My Street

Take a half an hour walk through the city I live in and you will realise that it isn't designed for you as a pedestrian; it has undoubtedly lost its human element. You feel like an alien in your own world, trying to make your way through an entanglement of spaghetti-like highways. Your thoughts are drowned by the sounds of the fast paced spaceships soaring past you. You are in a non-place. A place of …

…everything. Pavements were small enough to ensure that you would brush against the person passing by. The streets were narrow enough to ensure that vehicular traffic was slowed to an acceptable pace. There weren't any massive overpowering skyscrapers but instead there were low relatable buildings. So I propose a return to the human and intimate scale of streets (streets for people not only for cars), streets that are unlike the vast and empty city streets.