ABSTRACT
When you walk along a city street, what do you see? Are you in the city centre? If so, you might be surrounded by skyscrapers, office buildings, department stores, restaurants, cinemas, and what you will see is their signage, their concrete and glass construction, entrance doors, cars, pavements and municipal street furniture such as bins, post-boxes and lampposts. Are you in the suburbs, or some outlying residential area? Skyscrapers are uncommon there, and instead you will be able to see lower-level buildings, sometimes apartments, sometimes single homes; there might be local shops or transport stops, and there will still be some kinds of municipal street furniture. What about industrial and semi-industrial zones? It’s unlikely you would have arrived there on foot, so one thing you won’t be likely to see is pedestrian traffic; such areas are rarely the chosen neighbourhoods for strolling (walking is such a minority activity in these areas that you might find roads without pavements). Around you, you can see warehouses, storage depots, factories; there will be street signs but few other forms of municipal amenities.
