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Transport Museum

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The first poster attracted me because of the color scheme. The warm reds, yellows, and oranges looked nice and it has a tree blowing in the breeze, making me feel cool as well. The poster isn’t advertising a particular destination, just that it can be used to get out of the city and into the countryside. It was made by Dora M Batty in 1926, and there were a lot of her posters featured in the museum. This poster was probably meant for middle and upper class individuals who could afford to leave the city for the day, giving up a days work, to enjoy the ‘clean’ countryside. Using public transport might have been seen as low class, so directly advertising leisure services to those of means would help to lessen the stigma a bit. The next poster depicts the sum radiating heat on the surface, with lots of reds and oranges, while the underground is depicted as a cool reprieve, with lots of blue and green. The poster’s caption claims that they have a winter poster depicting the oppo
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Cycling in Munich

Cycling in the big city was so fun but I think the only thing that made it a fun experience for me was that fact that there was such good biking infrastructure (compared to Cincinnati), which could still use some improvement. I didn’t know the city to well, so when I was on my own I had to stop frequently to make sure I was going in the right direction. Besides construction in some areas, it was very easy to follow the signs for bikes, and if I didn’t see a no bike sign then I just hoped into the street when I got confused and was treated like a car, which was amazing. For a little while I just followed a pack of bikes that were riding in the road as if they were cars. Munich is better that Cincinnati for biking because they have so much infrastructure all around the city, even outside the center, like our hotel. I’ve not paid to much attention, but I don’t think I have ever seen bike infrastructure in Cincy. I think what could make Munich better for cycling is more completely separate
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Olympic Park

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I find it interesting that the park was designed to be used long after the games were over. I feel like many of the 21st century games that I have seen were built and then never used after the games were over. The use of the cities ruble after the bombings of WWII is also an interesting reuse of a useless material, but I wonder if there were any concerns about waste products or if those were sorted through and only safe waste was used to shape the landscape of the park. The first thing I noticed when we were looking at a map of the park was that one of the names for a major street through the park was Martin Luther King Jr. If they were trying to represent the new liberal democracy that Germany was trying to become, then one of the central figures of the American civil rights movement, who advocated for the founding principles of the United States, would be a good choice. I also like that the mass amount of green space is meant to be used. I hate going through neighborhoods and parks t
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Borough Market

The market was mainly food stall serving a wide variety of cuisine. Baked goods were all laid out in a nice presentation so that you could see everything on offer. When people ordered they would grab on off of the pile and pit it in a paper bag, at least at the stall I looked at. The few produce stands I saw had everything laid out for customers to grab. Everything I saw had a price label on it, or a menu on the wall telling the prices. Most people I saw were there to get food to eat., not to do their grocery shopping. A lot of people were carrying around food from multiple different stands and trying a variety of stuff. I couldn’t really pinpoint on particular type of person that was most common at the market. There were people who seemed to be on their lunch break from work, tourists, families there to get a bit to eat, older people. The prices for most of the food I purchases were quite high, so I would imaging the type of people that frequent the market would not be struggling to g
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Primerose Hill Park & London Tube

The park was pretty uneventful. There were a lot of wide paved walking paths and large patches of trimmed grass. I would say it was half manicured lawns and the rest of the grass was allowed to grow wild. The main attraction is the hill at the center that gives you a spectacular view of the London skyline. Other that that the park didn’t have much to offer. There were a lot of couples, parents with kids, and just people at the top of the hill and sitting on blankets on the side. There were also a lot of people walking there dogs. There were at least 5 or 6 dogs running around playing with each other and harassing people to pet them. There were also a lot of people exercising, mostly running up and down the hill.  Navigating the tube was hard at first, since we knew where we had to go but didn’t know any of he stations or how to get through them. The was a lot of helpful signage, a map of the entire tube system at the entrance of every station, and then a even more simplified map of the
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Travel emotional map

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What is a city for?

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