there will come a time when there are no motorised vehicles on the streets in major cites,
so what to do with the roads? rollout the green of course! above
Fleet Street in London as visioned sans vehicles, well except one if you look carefully, the team over at WATG reenvisions some of
the most iconic corridors in major cities in what the global design firm aptly
describes as “guerilla greening.”
another scene of London, through
a series of GIFs, streets in London, New York City, and Honolulu are transformed into lush, garden-like
enclaves teeming with trees, new landscaping, and thick vegetation wrapping
around the existing architecture,
WAFT poured
years of research into the short animations, which visualize practical and
viable adjustments that would improve air quality, promote bicycle and
pedestrian traffic, and make the traditionally concrete-and-brick locales more
ecologically diverse,
you
can read more about the ongoing project on the firm’s site,
and keep an eye out for future transformations on Twitter and Instagram, hopefully by the time all of this comes to pass there will be no more social distancing or mask wearing.
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