Posted November 8, 200717 yr 2007 ColDay Series: Part 1: Los Angeles Parte Uno Part 2: Los Angeles Parte Dos Part 3: Boston Part 4: A New York City Interlude Part 5: Montreal Part 6: Cincinnati Part 7: Pittsburgh & Harrisburg Part 8: Philadelphia Part 9: Brooklyn, New York Part 10: Atlantic City, Baltimore, & Washington DC Part 11: Dayton Part 12: Sacramento to Santa Cruz Part 13: Big Sur to San Francisco Part 14: San Francisco Part 15: Berkeley & Oakland Part 16: Around The Globe Preview Part 17: London I Part 18: London II Part 19: Paris Partie Une Part 20: Paris Partie Deux Part 21: Paris Partie Trois Part 22: Nashville & Pittsburgh Part 23: Gritcinnati Part 24: Toronto Part 25: Akron & Cleveland Part 26: New York City: Part One Part 27: New York City: Part Two Part 28: New York City: Part Three Part 29: Hartford Part 30: Zürich Part 31: Lucerne & The Swiss Alps Part 32: Milan Part 33: Dallas Part 34: Detroit Part 35: Gary Part 36: Chicago Zürich, Switzerland was a wonderful, little city. Next up, the Alps & Lucurne. Then Milan. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 8, 200717 yr Damn ... that place looks amazing! It's funny how the public seem to maneuver around streetcars as if they were bikes ... I cannot wait till we have ours up and running!
November 8, 200717 yr The density & architecture, pedestrian vibrancy, and beautiful setting all make for an amazing city. I really need to visit there one of these days. (just wish French were spoken there instead of German... I could probably get by a little easier speaking French)
November 8, 200717 yr Gee. Spaghetti Factory and Starbucks!? at least there are a LOT of bikes! I love your photos.
November 8, 200717 yr Damn...this makes me hot in the pants! that made me laugh. thats damn funny. im gonna use that all the time now. On an unrelated note......Damn ColDay, Zurich looks awesome. These pictures made me hot in my pants.
November 9, 200717 yr "...make me hot in my pants"? Those bicycles did it for me. Then the metro map. Then the walkable streets. Then the dense developments. I'll need a few days. Sigh, please take me traveling with you!!!
November 9, 200717 yr very nice job -- good to know you can build a fine lookin city off the stolen loot and gold teeth of dead people....aww but we won't go there with that world war two stuff! :whip: i was surprized to see a little graffiti, i'd have thought that stuff would not be there. and seriously how would we like to have that metro map superimposed over a map of columbus? there are fantasy sports leagues i wonder if there is a fantasy transit league? :laugh:
November 9, 200717 yr If I hadn't read the title of this thread I'd have though you were doing a photo thread on Easton! ;)
November 10, 200717 yr i was surprized to see a little graffiti, i'd have thought that stuff would not be there. Graffiti is very much prevalent over in Europe, but it's rapidly cleaned up it seems. When I did some traveling over there, I was amazed at the _lack of_ graffiti, but the guide told us that the owners have penalties for not cleaning up marred surfaces. I don't know how true that is, but it would explain the lack of graffiti over there.
November 13, 200717 yr i was surprized to see a little graffiti, i'd have thought that stuff would not be there. Graffiti is very much prevalent over in Europe, but it's rapidly cleaned up it seems. When I did some traveling over there, I was amazed at the _lack of_ graffiti, but the guide told us that the owners have penalties for not cleaning up marred surfaces. I don't know how true that is, but it would explain the lack of graffiti over there. I think owners should be responsible for cleaning up graffiti if it is on their property. The city and volunteer groups can only do so much. If property owners take pride in (or are forced to maintain) the appearances of their property, the city as a whole benefits.
November 14, 200717 yr Actually those pics just made me mad. To see a place that has embraced mass transit, mixed use, density, bicycle and pedestrian travel and then think how much effort we go through in this region (and most of the US) just to get developers and communities to build sidewalk/bike paths and plant some trees in the walmart parking lot. We sure have a long ways to go in most of the US.
November 16, 200717 yr Actually those pics just made me mad. To see a place that has embraced mass transit, mixed use, density, bicycle and pedestrian travel and then think how much effort we go through in this region (and most of the US) just to get developers and communities to build sidewalk/bike paths and plant some trees in the walmart parking lot. We sure have a long ways to go in most of the US. Must be something in the chocolate... :-D Seriously, I'm sure they have their fair share of sprawl and other ills but when you view these picks and realize that they haven't abandoned their towns like we have and continuously building sprawl it's no wonder that the swiss always rank highly in terms of quality of life, income,etc. they don't squander their national wealth by continuously building junk like we do. Nice pics.
April 27, 201114 yr ...and unlike a certain other European capital, Zürich's subterranean transit system isn't saturated with the stench of fermented piss.
April 27, 201114 yr LOL! Don't be hatin' on my Par-ree! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 27, 201113 yr Talk about a beautiful city--OMG, this is one! Thanks but no thanks for making me envious of a fairyland I can't have for my very own! (oh, the pain...) Zurich should be the model for all American wannabe urban areas; its compact density is delightful!
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