Saturday, January 11, 2014
Review: Rights of Way - Mobility and the City
I woke up today still pregnant and with no plans due to the
imminence of this baby’s birth. It was raining but finally the so called arctic
vortex of freezing cold air that has been making headlines the past 2 weeks was
gone. I figured I better get my family outside while it was warm out. We headed
for Faneuil Hall and happened past the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) at Atlantic Wharf, just past The Tea Party Museum.
Husband and I peered in the window at the exhibit and said we should go check
it out at some point. Just then the image below caught my attention; or rather
the writing caught my attention.
Three days after posting a blog entry about transportation
and the city I had inadvertently stumbled upon the Mecca of information about this exact topic.
We decided to detour and went inside. This is one of the many perks of living
downtown. It is hard to leave your house
without finding exhibits, events and other on goings of interest. Our little
girl was too young but there was even a special program today while we were
there for children K-12. TIP: Check out
Learning by Design in Massachusetts(LBD:MA) for more architecture and design programming targeting children!
Back to the original point; I was so impressed with this
exhibit I decided it warranted a review on the blog. Hopefully this will direct
some traffic, pardon the pun, in their direction. The exhibit is truly
multimedia including prototypes of urban transport, iPad and projector videos,
a timeline circulating the upstairs room of the history of urban mobility, a
comic strip story of the megalopolis of Sao
Paulo, etc.
.JPG "60% population living in urban areas 2030")
.JPG "infrastructure investment")
.JPG "commuting communities")
For me the
highlight was the pure facts that popped out including our country’s own lack
of investment in infrastructure as compared to China and Brazil, let alone the
EU and Japan. Learning that 60% of our
country’s population will live in cities by 2030 (guess our family is ahead of
the curve!). And Boswash; I never knew about this although the term has been
floating around since the 1960s. The exhibit incestuously (Höweler + Yoon designed the BSA space) highlighted Höweler + Yoon Architects: Shareway for the Boswash region – winner of the Audi Urban Future
award.
Rights of Way, which
started in December is up until May 26, 2014. For anyone interested in design, architecture, urban planning and
development, transportation, inventions, or the future of the U.S. this is
truly a must see. It is free of cost.
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