Street participation

How does this affect you?

Seen in London last week, a classical form of citizen participation in occidental cities.
Why do I blog this? It’s interestingly ubiquitous (at least in the Camden neighborhood I was in) and situated. I like the way it frames the question in context. However, although the question seems relevant, the vocabulary is highly administrative and not very people-centric.

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One Response to “Street participation”

  1. Tim Stevens Says:
    November 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    These signs are everywhere and have to be posted when there are planning applications open for public dispute. What I find interesting is that sometimes they can stay up for years, long after the enquiry has closed, and long after the building works have finished. I don’t know if this is local councils forgetting, being lazy (surely once the display period has expired they become litter?), or whether local people are just scared of taking them down themselves. I can imagine a situation in the UK at the moment whereby a local resident removed an expired notice, only to be prosecuted for doing so, as the notices presumably remain the property of the council.

    There is one at the end of my road for the construction of some speed bumps (traffic slowing, ’sleeping policemen’) that were finished in 2004. Maybe I should take it down? …

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