http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/24 raising awareness of people-centered place design Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:19:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/24#comment-1046 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:22:03 +0000 http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/24#comment-1046 [...] Steve Portigal posted some pictures of the Embarcadero’s creative “anti-skateboard” devices. The principle is similar to those functional yet visually attractive pigeon deterrents posted about earlier. Says Steve… It’s still ugly, but there’s an emotional component (”cute” - “fun” - “neat”) created by the whimsical shapes that counteracts that reaction quite strongly. I’m sure the original planners and architects are horrified, but it kinda mostly works. [...] […] Steve Portigal posted some pictures of the Embarcadero’s creative “anti-skateboard” devices. The principle is similar to those functional yet visually attractive pigeon deterrents posted about earlier. Says Steve… It’s still ugly, but there’s an emotional component (”cute” - “fun” - “neat”) created by the whimsical shapes that counteracts that reaction quite strongly. I’m sure the original planners and architects are horrified, but it kinda mostly works. […]

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