Chris Cantell Discusses Technologies: Think of Where You Live...
by Milota Sidorova
Have you ever noticed how many more or less strange utility boxes have overwhelmed our streets and sidewalks? Have you?
For brief summary, let's start like this. Public lighting system – that's necessary item, moreover, when properly designed, it may become a real jewel of the public space. Fair enough!
Then we have post boxes and telephone cabins – useful and traditionally cute as well.
Let's continue with public trash bins, varying in different sizes and designs. That is clearly necessary.
There are also parking card machines and transport ticket machines, everywhere the eye can see.
Along with the moving banners and big boards hanging all over, the walking corridor has been slowly tightening.
Walkways, public green and bouquets are on the contrary perceived in good way. They provide a place to rest for a while in a busy madness of the city, it also lowers noise and dusty air as it refreshes our eyes. It is a fact, that the human eye senses green as the most calming and distressing of all the colors.
Public spaces should be taken care of. It surrounds us from the early morning, while rushing to work or school to midday launch break, afternoon shopping or going back home.
One must admit, the proper care of public spaces is the most fickled business in the world. On one hand we have the whole army of developers and extending city sparks, on the other citizen trying to maintain the spirit of the city, comfort and beauty of historical buildings, parks and streets.
One must admit, that this is not a fair battle at all. So instead of transparent public tenders, our representatives often favorize private interests and benefits, assured by new visions of money making businessmen.
I am not saying I am against the progress, neither modern architecture. But tell me, how many times could you count the wrong concrete giant box in absolutely wrong environment?
And can we be proud of our glass metal capital? Who told that a metropolis has to have the concrete sea of skyscrapers?
The bigger city you live in, the less rights to influence such development you have.
And it is even worse with the states of former Soviet Union, where people were used to shut up their mouths and hold the line. Here, unfortunately, the officer has become a kind of God.
Corrupted tenders, progress (?) at any cost, transparent ignoring of public opinions.
However, don't want to end that tragic, there are still some solutions.
For this case, I just have to mention recently case of such ignoring developers, literally AT&T and Comcast, spreading cable and communication giants, placing their almost 4 feet tall U-verse VRAD cabinets right in the middle of resident's yards in many towns and cities of Illinois and California.
The reaction was according expectations the just ire on ignoring companies.
However, there's nobody rebelling against fiber speed or hight quality video broadcasting, but the more sensible solutions could be found. More and more residents have told – No more in front of my property. Still they don't have a law background neither power to stop the developing process.
And the concrete pavements with all those utility boxes resemble Ukrainian landscape. That's really what makes residents angry – their technologies in the 21st century size elephant.
Although there's been different effective outputs, for example in rivaling Verizon Communications burying their boxes underground, the problem (thanks the same officer) remains unsolved for many years.
Who would like to have a refrigerator in front of his step door?
So it is a strange balance among law backed giants, their good will and the residents. However, it is not always that stubborn. In Springfield, for example – the same company AT&T had paid amount of $1,500 for each of 850 utility boxes. The yield was used to adjust them into the landscape in a friendly way. Or in Santa Rosa, California, they had been asked to relocate some of the fridges by citizens, and the company did so.
The compromise can be always found. Neither does the politeness....
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_hi_te/tec_ugly_cable_boxes;_ylt=Avgp35tSCOJWNJcUb8A6PoGs0NUE
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.<br><br><font size=2>These news are original content from young talents around the world and are selected for you by Chris Cantell.</font><br>
posted by Lucia Adamova
For brief summary, let's start like this. Public lighting system – that's necessary item, moreover, when properly designed, it may become a real jewel of the public space. Fair enough!
Then we have post boxes and telephone cabins – useful and traditionally cute as well.
Let's continue with public trash bins, varying in different sizes and designs. That is clearly necessary.
There are also parking card machines and transport ticket machines, everywhere the eye can see.
Along with the moving banners and big boards hanging all over, the walking corridor has been slowly tightening.
Walkways, public green and bouquets are on the contrary perceived in good way. They provide a place to rest for a while in a busy madness of the city, it also lowers noise and dusty air as it refreshes our eyes. It is a fact, that the human eye senses green as the most calming and distressing of all the colors.
Public spaces should be taken care of. It surrounds us from the early morning, while rushing to work or school to midday launch break, afternoon shopping or going back home.
One must admit, the proper care of public spaces is the most fickled business in the world. On one hand we have the whole army of developers and extending city sparks, on the other citizen trying to maintain the spirit of the city, comfort and beauty of historical buildings, parks and streets.
One must admit, that this is not a fair battle at all. So instead of transparent public tenders, our representatives often favorize private interests and benefits, assured by new visions of money making businessmen.
I am not saying I am against the progress, neither modern architecture. But tell me, how many times could you count the wrong concrete giant box in absolutely wrong environment?
And can we be proud of our glass metal capital? Who told that a metropolis has to have the concrete sea of skyscrapers?
The bigger city you live in, the less rights to influence such development you have.
And it is even worse with the states of former Soviet Union, where people were used to shut up their mouths and hold the line. Here, unfortunately, the officer has become a kind of God.
Corrupted tenders, progress (?) at any cost, transparent ignoring of public opinions.
However, don't want to end that tragic, there are still some solutions.
For this case, I just have to mention recently case of such ignoring developers, literally AT&T and Comcast, spreading cable and communication giants, placing their almost 4 feet tall U-verse VRAD cabinets right in the middle of resident's yards in many towns and cities of Illinois and California.
The reaction was according expectations the just ire on ignoring companies.
However, there's nobody rebelling against fiber speed or hight quality video broadcasting, but the more sensible solutions could be found. More and more residents have told – No more in front of my property. Still they don't have a law background neither power to stop the developing process.
And the concrete pavements with all those utility boxes resemble Ukrainian landscape. That's really what makes residents angry – their technologies in the 21st century size elephant.
Although there's been different effective outputs, for example in rivaling Verizon Communications burying their boxes underground, the problem (thanks the same officer) remains unsolved for many years.
Who would like to have a refrigerator in front of his step door?
So it is a strange balance among law backed giants, their good will and the residents. However, it is not always that stubborn. In Springfield, for example – the same company AT&T had paid amount of $1,500 for each of 850 utility boxes. The yield was used to adjust them into the landscape in a friendly way. Or in Santa Rosa, California, they had been asked to relocate some of the fridges by citizens, and the company did so.
The compromise can be always found. Neither does the politeness....
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_hi_te/tec_ugly_cable_boxes;_ylt=Avgp35tSCOJWNJcUb8A6PoGs0NUE
| by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.<br><br><font size=2>These news are original content from young talents around the world and are selected for you by Chris Cantell.</font><br>
posted by Lucia Adamova
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