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naked streets
1.
2. Naked streets refers to the concept of stripping
a roadway of its signage—all of it, including
stop signs, signals, and even stripes.
Far from creating mayhem, this approach
appears to have lowered crash rates wherever
it has been tried.
Jeff Speck – Walkable Cities
term credited to Hans Monderman
3. what if life lives best on naked streets.
stripped of the signage/excess.
immersed in the now/uncertainty.
perhaps we’ve gotten ourselves into such a
dither/construct/pickle.. by labeling/regulating
[most always.. perhaps.. from good intention]
4. what if this obsession with
protecting/policing/ordering/equalizing.. is
actually doing us in.
what if what we thought we were doing – for
good – is actually becoming..
..the death of us.
5. The white marking seems to work as a
subliminal signal to drivers that they need to
act less cautiously - that it’s the edge of the
lane,
and not the cyclist,
that they need to worry about.
Jeff Speck – Walkable Cities
6. when did a white line become what we pay
attention to.
over people.
7. what if our need/habit to mark/control/direct
creates enough noise..
to drown out what we most need to be paying
attention to.
who we are
what we are doing
where we are going/staying/being/becoming
who we are with
what matters
silence
.
.
.
just now.
10. before we start anything.. we
need a business plan, a study of
pre-assess to go with an
assumed post-assess – that will
verify/validate/measure
whether something worked or
didn’t work.
…we need a 100-page form,
signed in triplicate, notarized,
paid in full, print too small and
print too much to
afford/handle/notice the
reading of..
to be stored in a secure/safe
place in order to secure our
future safety..
in order to
validate/approve/credential our
actual being.
perhaps rules are made when
we don’t trust people to think
on their feet.
which they most likely would.. if
they weren’t so busy (and/or
annoyed/preoccupied/tired/tic
ked-off) from reading/following
12. what if it’s
the not planning
the not assessing/measuring/managing/regulating/road-signing
that will best get us to where we want to go/be.
13. what if it’s
the being awake/alive enough
to notice/know the real
that we ly crave/need/are.
14. over people.
When you don’t exactly know who has right of way,
you tend to seek eye contact
with other road users.
- Hans Monderman
15. what if it’s the nakededness of the street that
begs our awareness/attention/eyes/trust.. and
keeps us alive.
spaces were you just know. even if you don’t
know the thing. especially if you can’t
measure/document/communicate the thing.
you still know
the space/moment/happening .. is real.
and that’ll do it.
that’s enough.
you just know.
what if we trusted that.
16.
17. In Monderman’s terms, “Chaos equals
cooperation.”
Jeff Speck – Walkable Cities
The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people’s sense of personal responsibility
dwindles.
- Hans Monderman
18. perhaps in chaos… in the uncertainty of naked
streets.. we slow-down/wake-up.. enough
to listen.
to notice .
By creating a greater sense of uncertainty and making it unclear who had right of way,
drivers reduce their speed, and everyone reduces their level of risk compensation.
- Hans Monderman
19. what if it’s all the prep, directions, regulations..
all the stuff that gets us feeling
observed/managed/coerced/measured/s
afe..
that keeps us from
perhaps trust breeds/spreads/multiplies when
it’s free from proving/obliging/obeying.
real trust becomes something you can’t not
share. even if you can’t articulate it. often
because you can’t articulate it.
20. if we plan for something.. map it all out.. road-
sign it up..
we often lose focus
of what matters.
we think little about trust.
about what it means to be human and alive.
about what makes us come alive.
we often become mindless.
21.
22. perhaps naked streets scare us. perhaps uncertainty scares us.
but it’s what keeps us alive.
the #1 regret of the dying – is that they didn’t live a life more true to themselves…
perhaps we find/hear/see/become ourselves.. when the streets are naked enough..
to beg/allow us to listen.. to be awake in the now….
23. imagine all the time we’d have if we gave up all the prep and training and policy and paperwork for the policy and…. and road signs.. and policy
and paperwork and training for the road signs.. and people to train for the policy of the paperwork of the signs of the road signs.. and the
training of the training for the training of the signs that police the policy of the preparation of the regulations for safety of the lines on the road..
28. Naked streets refers to the concept of stripping
a roadway of its signage—all of it, including
stop signs, signals, and even stripes.
Far from creating mayhem, this approach
appears to have lowered crash rates wherever
it has been tried.
Jeff Speck – Walkable Cities
