This year we continued our popular Urban Design Observations series (which has become a bit harder for me to write now that I live on a farm). Here’s a selection of streetside-spotted oddities and improvised solutions from 2018:
Why SoHo Has 19th Century Glass Sidewalks and Stoops
Hacking Cold- and Wet-Weather UX Improvements Onto a Bicycle
Is This Screw-Up the Designer’s Fault or the Contractor’s Fault?
What Exactly are These Pieces of Street Furniture, and How Do They Help Firefighters?
Improvised Truncated Anti-Drunk, Anti-Homeless Front Door
Supermarket Poultry-Based Hilarity
What is This Thing For?
What’s Up With This Bike Lock?
Los Angeles Edition: High & Low in the Hollywood Hills
Los Angeles Edition: More from the Hollywood Hills
San Francisco Edition: Bizarre Public Trash Can
San Francisco Edition: Looking Down
San Francisco Edition: Street Furniture
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Source: core77