Or, why we’ve spent twenty years obsessing over bin lorries while ignoring the “forever hum of fear”
“It is therefore recommended that as a starting point for any scheme affecting non-trunk roads, designers should start with MfS.” – Manual for Streets 2 (1.3.2)
As Jan Gehl says, “you get what you invite”. If we continue to invite motonormativity and car-dominated sprawl, we invite isolation and intimidation. But if we invite women back into the public realm by designing specifically for their safety, we automatically make the street safer for everyone else: children, the elderly, and even the lads on the Graham Norton Show who thought clutching a phone was a joke.
Find out more in this week’s Sketch…
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