Public Staircases
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Public Staircases
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#2Reminds me of Bernard Rudofskys 'In praise of stairs'. A great piece of writing available in a freely borrowable chapter here https://archive.org/details/streetsforpeople00rudo
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#3The stairs as better benches comparison is great.
It also mentions the [Los Angeles Loop](https://socalstairclimbers.com/los-angeles-loop/) which I had never heard of. Interesting post
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#4I thought they might mention the most famous public stairs in recent years - The Joker Stairs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_Stairs). They've become a tourist attraction to the inconvenience to locals.
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#5Havens alley in San Francisco is beautiful, if you are ever near the curvy part of lombard street, it's a block away.
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#6LA: I remember a notable one on the Silver Lake side of the ridge separating the neighborhoods of Silver Lake and Echo Park. My recollection is that it had no handrail.
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#7Havens alley in San Francisco is beautiful, if you are ever near the curvy part of lombard street, it's a block away.
I’m partial to the multiple tiled stairways leading up to Grandview Park in the Sunset.
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#8It's my understanding that Pittsburgh has more public staircases than virtually any other city. There are over 700 staircases, and many are quite long.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~rochballparks2/towns/pgh_steps.h...
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#9If you love public staircases, you should probably spend a few days in Perugia, Italy†. Explained a bit here:
https://www.chasingtheunexpected.com/perugia-medieval-city/
†: I lived there for 6 months in 2005. A lovely small Italian college town (small city) that is nothing but hills and medieval staircases, alleys, and arches. It feels like living in an Escherian or Borgesian maze. It's wonderful.
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#10The problem with staircases being used for seating is that this robs them of their ability to function as passages. This is generally not a problem with wide outdoor staircases in city centers, but it certainly is when it comes to staircases in or near public transport stations, such as the one shown in the article.