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Placemaking Pitfall | Landscape Architecture Magazine
A group of disability legal rights organizations lifted issues about a mural crosswalk in London’s Bankside community. Image courtesy Better Bankside. Considered by the two designers and departments of transportation as an reasonably priced way to strengthen the public realm, street murals that embellish or often even swap traditional crosswalks have turn out to be staples in the placemaking playbook. Above the past two many years, creative crossings have popped up in New York Charleston, South Carolina Chattanooga, Tennessee Oakland, California and Des Moines, Iowa to name a number of. City transportation officials have claimed these street murals, normally funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Artwork Initiative, make improvements to pedestrian…


