Ads, they understand. Bike racks, not so much.
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 29 Mar 2007 at 04:15 pm | Tagged as: Toronto
The “street furniture” proposals are on display. One of the Spacing folks helpfully broke the PDFs into images for easier viewing. (He’s not making the images CC licensed, though [oddly] so no direct links.)
All the bike racks suck. They’re either flimsy-looking, impossible to lock to safely (locking both frame and at least one wheel, keeping the lock up off the ground), or impossible to lock to at all — check out the Astral one that looks like a small pillar, and picture trying to use it with a U-lock. Now picture the Clear Channel ones that look like oversized bottle openers surviving an encounter with a snowplow.
Lots of lovely ad space on everything. And shiny, cold metal. Low maintenance, but none of it would add anything to the city, IMO.
Hey, MoreCoffee[,]Please, a wee bit of clarification. I don’t claim the copyright on the images; they are reproduced from public documents for review and criticism, as the fair-dealing provisions of the Copyright Act allow.
You have no constraint whatsoever, apart, I suppose, from batshit-crazy ideology, from linking to an actual Web page, which is what the Flickr images are.
This response, incidentally, is copyright © Joe Clark, 2007. All rights reserved.
I did link to the page, obviously, or the blog post would be pointless, and as is clear from my post I did not imply they were images of your creation.
But the images on Flickr have been marked “all rights reserved”, which (among other settings) affects the options Flickr gives viewers. No downloading, blogging one image directly, etc. After all the work on splitting up the PDFs it seemed fair enough, if a slightly odd choice of permissions, so I respected that and linked to the set instead of pulling in individual images.