{"id":863,"date":"2011-04-09T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=863"},"modified":"2012-06-24T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T08:00:37","slug":"windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2011\/04\/09\/windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graffitied service cover, Surry Hills, Sydney, April 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

I sometimes like to think of the pavement as a roof \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the roof of the busy underground world that supports our day-to-day living. And if the pavement is a roof, then manholes (correct term:\u00c2\u00a0 maintenance holes) are skylights, and service covers are the shutters on those skylights. I wrote earlier about how I tried to peer down a chink in one of these \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshutters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to see the Paris sewer system <\/a>below. How gauche can a tourist get?<\/p>\n

Geoff Manaugh makes a good suggestion on his BLDGBLG site<\/a>: how about installing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcupside-down periscopes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122? In vertically dense cities, he proposes, these would allow everyone to peer down into subterranean infrastructure, exploring subways, cellars, plague pits, crypts, sewers, buried rivers and streams. They would be a kind of archaeological \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctruth window\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sometimes like to think of the pavement as a roof \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the roof of the busy underground world that supports our day-to-day living. And if the pavement is a roof, then manholes (correct term:\u00c2\u00a0 maintenance holes) are skylights, and service covers are the shutters on those skylights. I wrote earlier about how I tried <\/p>\n

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