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Urbanity recaptured Smart Action on May 4, 2009, Pedestrian Zone Kärntner Straße, Vienna.
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Urbanity recaptured Smart Action on May 4, 2009, Pedestrian Zone Kärntner Straße, Vienna Pedestrian zones are walled-in reservations that have nothing to do with real urbanity any more.They are part of a regulation mania, with precise definitions of where we may walk, make noise, or where children can play. We encounter markings in all areas of our lives – we can hardly miss our designated paths.
While urban life and urban architecture are substantially infiltrated by consumer oriented developments turning city centers into adventure zones for pedestrians, architecture is confronted with an officialism that permits the predictable in order to produce the profitable.