Where is awesome street

A pdf file with all the photos and recommendations for your next days in Athens! We will start our walk from the area of Gazi, home to a new industrial space and exhibition center. Then we will continue to Monastiraki and Psyrri. Psyrri is the original home of street art in Athens and we will make a short break in this colorful neighborhood. We will see some street art in Omonoia and finally, we will finish our tour to the Kerameikos district. In Kerameikos we will taste amazing souvlaki!

Dec 11 - Dec Book Now. Street art reviews. If only real bees had it this easy. We'll never look at a concrete block bench the same way. And neither will the kids who helped out with this piece.

This intervention is so popular you can buy a poster of it at OakOak's shop. It's definitely a cool sign to take to your next climate change protest. Two dots and two arms turn an abandoned machine in an old factory into an adorably terrifying monster.

You thought the line was meant to bar cars from parking, but it was really the tail of the beloved French-Belgian cartoon character, Marsupilami. It seems like Sisyphus has traded in his giant boulder for something infinitely more difficult to roll up a hill. In the past decades, there has been increasing friction between two fundamentally urban characteristics: Place and flow. While this might sound rather vague, this is an issue with which cities around the globe continue to struggle, and represent two basic elements that make up the existence of cities themselves.

More concretely, attractive and accessible spaces are needed for people to gather and make use of an inviting public realm. At the same time however, people flock to urban environments due to their efficient flow of both people and goods. This trend is only further complicated as the variety in size, weight, and speed of vehicles continues to grow. In other words, as cities continue to grow in popularity and size, a friction between place and flow has developed.

The more space we dedicate for high quality public spaces, the less efficient movement through the city becomes. The opposite has also shown to be problematic. The more space dedicated to flows through the city, the harder it becomes to create for high quality public spaces.

The Good Street design approach provides a new way of thinking, with new foundations for design. At present, there is a tendency to focus on increasing flows, with spatial quality addressed as a separate problem.

The Good Street, however, starts with its focus on place.