This document discusses several topics related to design and access in cities, including: 1) Segregation patterns in many US cities from the 2000 Census, with racial groups often clustered in separate neighborhoods. 2) An 1854 example from London of Dr. John Snow tracing a cholera outbreak to a contaminated public water pump on Broad Street. 3) The concept of public space as areas generally open and accessible to people, like roads and parks, and how privately owned buildings can still impact the public visual landscape through advertising.

1. DESIGN AND ACCESS TO THE CITY
Mathias Klang - @klangable – mklang@sju.edu

4. http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_m6hepa46/
“He’s a decent man, I’m sure he didn’t mean any by wrong doing, he was
just doing his job” “a sincere mistake” “

5. Search: Forest Whitaker deli Compare apologies vs news
WHAT DOES GOOGLE SAY?

6. The other day I walked past this particular deli. I believe its owners to be
good people. I felt ashamed at withholding business for something far
beyond the merchant’s reach. I mentioned this to my wife. My wife is not
like me. When she was 6, a little white boy called her cousin a nigger, and it
has been war ever since. “What if they did that to your son?” she asked.
And right then I knew that I was tired of good people, that I had had all the
good people I could take.
THE GOOD, RACIST PEOPLE
BY TA-NEHISI COATES

7. GEOGRAPHY & ACCESS

8. LONDON 1854 miasma (Μίασμα, ancient Greek: "pollution"), a
noxious form of "bad air”

9. JOHN SNOW & THE BROAD STREET PUMP

12. The Soho workhouse
The niece and Aunt
The school children

13. SEGREGATION: RACE AND ETHNICITY
(2000) ERIC FISCHER UPDATED FOR
CENSUS 2010

14. DETROIT: EVERYONE IS BLACK IN THE
CITY, AND EVERYONE IS WHITE IN THE
SUBURBS

15. CHICAGO: WHITE PEOPLE CLUSTER ON
THE NORTHSIDE, AND AVOID THE
SOUTH

16. LOS ANGELES: WHITE PEOPLE LIVE
ON THE BEACH

17. PHILADELPHIA: BLACKS LIVE IN NORTH
PHILLY, WHITES LIVE BY THE RIVER AND
IN THE SUBURBS

18. NEW YORK: ASIANS LIVE IN
CHINATOWN, BLACK IN HARLEM, AND
WHITES LIVE ON CENTRAL PARK

19. WASHINGTON DC: THE INNER CITY
IS ALL BLACK

20. MAP WEALTH & RACE

21. Median household income in Center City and surrounding sections, 2000
Census.

22. Race in Philadelphia (2000 U.S. Census). Each dot represents 25
residents. Red for Whites; blue for blacks; green for Asians; and Orange
for Latinos

23. A public space is a social space that
is generally open and accessible to
people. Roads (including the
pavement), public squares, parks
and beaches are typically
considered public space.

24. To a limited extent,
government buildings which
are open to the public, such as
public libraries are public
spaces, although they tend to
have restricted areas and
greater limits upon use.

25. Although not considered public
space, privately owned
buildings or property visible
from sidewalks and public
thoroughfares may affect the
public visual landscape, for
example, by outdoor
advertising.

26. PRIVATE VS PUBLIC

27. FREE SPEECH

28. “What is freedom of expression? Without the
freedom to offend, it ceases to exist” Salman Rushdie

29. Worlds largest, operations in six of the seven continents
CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS

31. VANDALIZED BILLBOARD

32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08h6HLBRD8

33. BALTIMORE BILLBOARD TAX (2013)

35. ALTERNATE DISCOURSE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which
to play… Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good
planking.

37. RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY

38. “people have a right to protest, and if
they want to protest, we'll be happy
to make sure they have locations to
do it.”
MAYOR BLOOMBERG

39. ZUCCOTTI PARK

41. SURVEILLANCE

42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILTl8mxEnE

43. Mathias Klang
www.klangable.com
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