{"id":7667,"date":"2015-08-10T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2016-11-18T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:53:14","slug":"pedestrian-crossing-sun-shading-a-simple-solution-with-a-huge-walkability-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/2015\/pedestrian-crossing-sun-shading-a-simple-solution-with-a-huge-walkability-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian crossing sun shading – a simple solution with a huge walkability benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A July in Manhattan is hot and sweaty. While it’s relatively easy to escape into parks or air-conditioned businesses, there’s one spot where we are forced to stand and wait, under beating sun – waiting to cross the street.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

In crowded cities like New York, where we frequently have to wait for crossing, these accumulating minutes of exposure to unwanted sun radiation can be annoying, and a notable discouragement for walking.<\/p>\n

While enjoying a short break in Flatiron District<\/a>, I was wondering why not applying such simple solutions – parasols, to pedestrian crossings.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n

So let’s go back to that sun beaten wait<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n

and add a parasol. That’s a relief!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n

I got back to Tel Aviv for yet another “extremely sunny” day<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\n

and kept thinking about a simple parasol that can contribute dramatically to walkability.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\n

Parasols can be placed and maintained by municipalities, but a better implementation would be harnessing adjacent businesses to do so – at least for daily maintenance. With a proper reward mechanism for businesses, municipalities can encourage contribution to public space without an expensive and complicated logistic effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waiting to cross the street can be extremely annoying on hot summer days. Placing parasols on the sidewalk in front of pedestrian crossings may provide a relief and encourage walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,12],"tags":[16,42,111,56],"class_list":["post-7667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-north-america","category-tel-aviv","tag-architecture","tag-people","tag-transportation","tag-urban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7671,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions\/7671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}