Описание: Alleyway linking Oldfield Road and Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16. Both photos above are looking north towards Stoke Newington Church Street. The alley comes out near the entrance to The Auld Shillelagh pub in Church Street. § I blurred faces in the photo on the right. § Link to Google Maps Street View. _____________________ I like alleys. Show me the entrance to an alleyway and usually I want to explore it. (There are exceptions.) This liking and curiosity may go back to my primary school days. Finding a new route to walk home from school was then part of having more independence. A way to open up and learn our local neighbourhood and enlarge my mental map. Plus saving a few old pennies (the bus fare) to buy something I chose. But - as I learned in my twenties from reading Jane Jacobs - it's far more than that. Going down the same roads, especially long streets without alternative routes, can get monotonous and boring. "... it is fluidity of use, and the mixing of paths, not homogeneity of architecture, that ties together city neighborhoods into pools of city use, whether those neighborhoods are predominately for work or predominately for residence." — (Source: Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Chapter 9 "The need for small blocks". "Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent." ___________________________ § SPUR Ideas + Action for a Better City § Why We Love Alleys article by Benjamin Grant, 16 May 2013.
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