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Rethinking Flyovers: culture and design Dr Steve Millington Manchester Metropolitan University January 2012

I gazed down at this immense motion sculpture, whose deck seemed almost higher than the balcony rail against which I leaned. I began to orientate myself again around its reassuring bulk, its familiar perspectives of speed, purpose and direction (Ballard, Crash 1995: 48)

Flyover, Flyover Sing! Flyover, Flyover Chance! Flyover, Flyover Step on the gas get down in the accelerator, Sing! Flyover, Flyover Don't wanna get back don't wanna get captured, Chance! Flyover, Flyover Step on the gas get down in the accelerator, Sing! Flyover, Flyover Flyover Asian Dub Foundation From the 2005 album Tank

http://www.granterskinearchitects.com/page_tesseract_competition.html

Ruhr Valley, 2010 RECLAIM THE STREETS

http://rafaelsoldi.blogspot.com THE HIGH LINE PARK, NEW YORK

New York The Highline Park

LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL

LYON FÊTE DES LUMIÈRES

FREEMONT STREET, LAS VEGAS

http://www.gcbl.org/planning/innerbelt/urban-design-land- development-and-the-innerbelt/aesthetics-of-innerbelt-plan CLEVELAND INNER-BELT PROJECT

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simon-crubellier/ MY TURN, SIMON CRUBELLIER

Westway

http://www.urbaneye.org.uk/pages/showcase_acklam.htm WESTWAY, URBAN EYE

http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/showthread.php?p=406175 SAN ANTONIO

http://www.enterthemothership.com/index.php?mact=Album,cntnt01,d efault,0&cntnt01albumid=261&cntnt01returnid=76&hl=usa KRALINGEN-CROOSWIJK UNDERPASS, ROTTERDAM

LENI SCHWENDINGER LIGHT PROJECTS

Kingston Bridge, Glasgow

Rhode Island

Times Square Port Authority underpass concept

http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/42-18627662.html JACK LACEY / CORBIS

Festive Freeway Underpass, Birmingham

http://d0ub7.deviantart.com/art/in-a-h-u-r-r-y-4178862 DEVIANT ART

In a Hurry

http://www.olssonlinder.se/ OLSSON AND LINDER LIGHT DESIGN

http://www.olssonlinder.se/projects/vagverket/ http://www.olssonlinder.se/projects/stockholms- stad-trafikkontoret-belysning/ http://www.olssonlinder.se/projects/partillebo -ab/

http://guerrillalighting.net/gallery/manchester-november-2006/ GUERRILLA LIGHTING

EARTH HOUR – THE POWER OF DARKNESS

Source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

Source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/