[HN Gopher] Public Staircases
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Public Staircases
Author : pshaw
Score : 129 points
Date : 2021-12-17 20:03 UTC (1 days ago)
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| cafard wrote:
| LA: I remember a notable one on the Silver Lake side of the ridge
| separating the neighborhoods of Silver Lake and Echo Park. My
| recollection is that it had no handrail.
| sqs wrote:
| My town (Mill Valley, California) has dozens of public steps and
| paths (https://www.cityofmillvalley.org/DocumentCenter/View/1565/
| SL...), including the Dipsea steps
| (https://stairwayfreedom.weebly.com/mill-valley--
| sausalito/th...).
|
| My favorite, though, is the Central-Mid-Levels escalators and
| steps in Hong Kong
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%E2%80%93Mid-
| Levels_esc...).
| dnautics wrote:
| Havens alley in San Francisco is beautiful, if you are ever near
| the curvy part of lombard street, it's a block away.
| pimlottc wrote:
| I'm partial to the multiple tiled stairways leading up to
| Grandview Park in the Sunset.
| mmahemoff wrote:
| I thought they might mention the most famous public stairs in
| recent years - The Joker Stairs
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_Stairs). They've become a
| tourist attraction to the inconvenience to locals.
| delgaudm wrote:
| It's my understanding that Pittsburgh has more public staircases
| than virtually any other city. There are over 700 staircases, and
| many are quite long.
|
| http://www.frontiernet.net/~rochballparks2/towns/pgh_steps.h...
| anodyne33 wrote:
| 739 officially documented. Laura Zurowski is on a project to
| visit them all and pairs lovely prose with her trips on IG.
|
| https://mis-steps.com/
| myself248 wrote:
| Many years ago, I was in the passenger seat on a road-trip that
| had a brief stop in Pittsburgh, to get lunch with some friends
| before we moved on. I absentmindedly commented, as it was
| summer and many folks were wearing shorts, that a _lot_ of
| people here _really great legs_.
|
| As the thought coalesced in my mind about why that might be the
| case, the driver responded "Maybe it's from trying to work the
| clutch pedal on these hills!"
| pixelmonkey wrote:
| If you love public staircases, you should probably spend a few
| days in Perugia, Italy+. Explained a bit here:
|
| https://www.chasingtheunexpected.com/perugia-medieval-city/
|
| +: I lived there for 6 months in 2005. A lovely small Italian
| college town (small city) that is nothing but hills and medieval
| staircases, alleys, and arches. It feels like living in an
| Escherian or Borgesian maze. It's wonderful.
| ianbicking wrote:
| A while ago I was perusing the hillside communities in Lima,
| Peru on Google Maps [1]
|
| It's pretty rough. But it made me wonder if some of these now
| quaint hillside communities in Italy would have felt more like
| Lima. Now they've reached a certain mythic quality, but at one
| time the higher up you were probably the lower class (because
| access is annoying and difficult), and what is now well
| maintained may have been more crude and decayed.
|
| Another bit of weird hillside architecture [2]
|
| [1]
| https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.0647469,-77.001966,3a,75y,1...
|
| [2]
| https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.0658476,-76.9996591,3a,75y,...
| stemlord wrote:
| Nice. Lisbon is also notable for its staircases.
| lancebeet wrote:
| The problem with staircases being used for seating is that this
| robs them of their ability to function as passages. This is
| generally not a problem with wide outdoor staircases in city
| centers, but it certainly is when it comes to staircases in or
| near public transport stations, such as the one shown in the
| article.
| twelvechairs wrote:
| Reminds me of Bernard Rudofskys 'In praise of stairs'. A great
| piece of writing available in a freely borrowable chapter here
| https://archive.org/details/streetsforpeople00rudo
| rexf wrote:
| The stairs as better benches comparison is great.
|
| It also mentions the [Los Angeles
| Loop](https://socalstairclimbers.com/los-angeles-loop/) which I
| had never heard of. Interesting post
| msla wrote:
| > The stairs as better benches comparison is great.
|
| They are until you have a physical disability which makes it
| hard to pull yourself back up after sitting on a stair.
| randomdude402 wrote:
| I don't think anybody was suggesting to remove benches and
| replace them with stairs.
|
| The existence of stairs is not an attack on disabled people
| this time.
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