The introduction of paid parking inside the Boulevard Ring on June 1 caused an expectedly violent reaction from bloggers. In response to angry motorists, municipal deputy and public activist Maxim Katz wrote in his blog how parking will help improve the transport situation: “We now have a cheaper car to drive around the city than by public transport,” the blogger notes, but the opposite is necessary, because “infrastructure for cars it is much more expensive, and the area of the city (which is very expensive) they occupy much more”. The introduction of paid parking, according to Maxim Katz, is the end of subsidizing trips to the center by car; as a result, there will be fewer cars, and the priority will shift in favor of public transport, the user concludes.
However, judging by the comments, those who traveled by car will not switch to the bus: “If someone else refuses the car, then there will definitely be hell in the metro,” says mihvas, for example. “When there is hell in the metro, there will be a foundation for building a tram,” they sneer back at him. User mo4i is sure that in order to improve traffic, it is necessary to limit the population of the city, and not create new levies, motivating with Western experience. But the mff objects to this that "in the West, the population of the city is never limited, because a properly planned and organized city grows, in particular, because it attracts the best people and because of this it is the driver of the economy of a potentially very large region." In addition, paid parking, according to the user, is not a levy from the population "in general", but a levy from motorists - "a small but very aggressive stratum of people towards others and nature."
Meanwhile, the construction of parking meters in the center of Moscow, which had begun, encountered an unexpected obstacle in the form of architectural monuments. Local historian Nikolai Avvakumov in the hitrovka.livejournal.com blog reports on the illegal work unfolded on the eve of the security zone "Yaroshenko's House with 17th century chambers." The bloggers decided that the digging was arranged for laying the cable to the parking meters.
And on the sidewalks of Tverskaya Street, which have only recently been freed from parking lots, there is a new obstacle for pedestrians in the form of "greenery" in granite pedestals connected to benches and trash cans. As blogger Ilya Varlamov writes, this time the trees were not planted in the ground, but they were placed in tubs and will be changed every season. As a result, it was not possible to return the Tverskoy blooming view, as it was before the 1990s, but the sidewalk was again narrowed, spending about 300 million rubles on landscaping, as the user atree notes.
By the way, the newly created community "Association for the Development of the City of Izhevsk" on Facebook has become interested in the problem of parking and the post of Maxim Katz. Now, however, the attention of the local community is riveted on the project of a quarter in the very center of the city, above the Izhevsk pond, where more than 10 hectares of the green zone are going to be destroyed. As the user farit writes, "boxes with ruffles will appear here, among which the already chaotic Youth Creativity Palace will turn into a crushed earthworm."
Note that the Samara community these days are discussing the project of building a new quarter in the Oktyabrsky District: only here, as they write in the samara-ru.livejournal.com group, not a green zone is destroyed, but an architectural monument - the 1909 Artillery Barracks. The blogger vot_tak_da notices that the object in the planning project has not been taken into account at all. gps_auto adds that it will be difficult to force the developer to change their plans: “We have not yet got accustomed to such a concept as“the prestige of owning a historic building”. The fact that in the West belongs to the elite sector of the real estate market, our investors are not particularly enthusiastic."
Meanwhile, Voronezh was also engaged in the problems of urbanism on a voluntary basis: a website was launched on the vastness of the network, which allows you to construct a virtual city with all the amenities - bike paths, an open-air cinema, a skate park, a beach, a modern train station, and so on. “What we need to build a town is elementary, Watson. Do it yourself and live happily ever after! - Alexander Antonov comments on the idea in the RUPA community of urbanists. - Why do we need some kind of specialist planners? They only interfere with their tediousness … But the recognition of the profession is rapidly increasing among the population. “Why can't the townspeople choose what they want? - objects Irina Irbitskaya. - Let them break the wood, feel their responsibility. Only a responsible customer can turn to a professional”. - “I doubt that someone will really change something on the basis of this,” adds Konstantin Garanin, “but the same planners are in favor of an opinion poll, and the authorities are an asset.”
St. Petersburg is not lagging behind the trend: the other day, local city rights activists launched a new Internet project for the registration of objects in the urban environment "Space of St. Petersburg". Not only architectural monuments will be taken into account, but also spaces, views, infrastructure of the city, for example, squares and beaches, which the participants of the "inventory" hope to protect from development.
By the way, the community save-sp-burg.livejournal.com recalled the recently lost panorama of the Kryukov Canal, spoiled by a glass bridge between two stages of the Mariinsky Theater. “Like, a light transparent glass transition…. Like, a good place for banner ads,”blogger na6ludatelb sneers. As user raymond_babbitt wrote, “I have the feeling that this city was built by another civilization. And the one who lives here now only uses it, and perceives only the visible part of it, but does not even think about how it works."
Meanwhile, its own hi-tech has appeared at the Sochi airport, where the original "church pavilion" was erected. The lack of a familiar atmosphere, according to blogger nikitskij, is compensated by the peculiar glow of the chapel. However, not everyone appreciated the miracle of advanced technology, made, in the words of the user upjohn, from a piece of the skin of the battleship "Peresvet".
Architect Yuri Avvakumov in the blog Snob.ru also recently wrote about the legacy - the one that was not shared among themselves by the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin and the Hermitage, arguing about the project of the Museum of New Western Art. According to Yuri Avvakumov, this project is “the last museum utopia in our life,” which should finally realize a continuous chronological line of development of 20th century art. The architect believes that this should be a museum of art of one era, its artists and collectors, for which it is worth finding an old factory building or building a modern one. But, for example, the ex-director of another large museum - the Polytechnic - Gurgen Grigoryan on the Opinion.ru blog noted in this regard that the idea can be realized without touching the existing collections: to build a gallery of modern art and fill it with very high-quality copy material using digital technologies.
