Friday, August 04, 2006

Better than shopping carts...

I'm sympathetic to both sides in the homeless dilemma but it does seem very mean spirited to take away the shopping carts from these people (re: article in TC today). I know it is theft and shopping carts are an eyesore still...

This photo is from the Homeless Vehicle Project which was featured in a book called "Portable Architecture - and Unpredictible Surroundings". This was a contribution from French architects and the idea was to have a distorting-mirror vehicle that could be driven by bicycle and used for living accommodation in the streets of Paris.

I thought it was quite neat although perhaps not completely practical as an alternative to shopping carts, but surely if we can put a man on the moon we could come up with something...