Looking at the city
A city of poor aesthetic coordination Waterloo Station Square - 102 elements
Regent Street - 45 elements per 100 metre Streetlight
Waterloo Station
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St. Giles Circus - less important information placed right in the centre of the footway The city is full of information and features that are placed to ease wayfinding, give light at night, secure pedestrians from traffic and make traffic work. These street elements have grown to an extent where they dominate the streetscape in some areas, giving a confused, un-aesthetic and completely cluttered pedestrian landscape. Many unused poles are to be found, where signs have been removed but the poles remain. Unnecessary information is often given and phone booths from various companies take up space. Bus shelters divide the footways, giving only limited room to pass on the most used streets (e.g. Oxford St, Regent St). Examples: Piccadilly Circus Oxford Circus St. Giles Circus Regent Street Oxford Street Tottenham Court Road Charing Cross Road New Oxford Street Euston Road Leicester Square Waterloo Station Square
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Waterloo Station. Apart from the various elements, the station foreground has been divided into minor islands, making pedestrian passage to and from the station more complicated and confusing. This is, aesthetically, a completely unacceptable Welcome to London.
Pedestrian landscape with 43 poles
Frequently crowded footways are due to an unfortunate combination of narrow footways and bulky street elements.
Bus shelters minimize walking space at Regent Street