City Image
How much space we give to our roads! This brilliant illustration, made by Swedish artist Karl Jilg and commissioned by the Swedish Road Administration, shows just how extreme the situation truly is wherein most city roads are designed keeping cars in mind. The work recently won the second place in the 2020 edition of the Powerful Mobility Memes Awards, organised by the Urban Cycling Institute. In the image, Jilg depicts city streets as gorges, crosswalks as wobbly planks, and sidewalks as shallow ledges to show how little space pedestrians are allowed to inhabit in a typical intersection.
www.urbanupdate.in | January 2021
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