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If 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.
My favorite, though, is the Central–Mid-Levels escalators and steps in Hong Kong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%E2%80%93Mid-Levels_esc...).
The 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
They are until you have a physical disability which makes it hard to pull yourself back up after sitting on a stair.
It'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...
As the thought coalesced in my mind about why that might be the case, the driver responded "Maybe it's from trying to work the clutch pedal on these hills!"
It'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...
If 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.
It's pretty rough. But it made me wonder if some of these now quaint hillside communities in Italy would have felt more like Lima. Now they've reached a certain mythic quality, but at one time the higher up you were probably the lower class (because access is annoying and difficult), and what is now well maintained may have been more crude and decayed.
Another bit of weird hillside architecture [2]
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.0647469,-77.001966,3a,75y,1...
[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.0658476,-76.9996591,3a,75y,...
The 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
> The stairs as better benches comparison is great. They are until you have a physical disability which makes it hard to pull yourself back up after sitting on a stair.
The existence of stairs is not an attack on disabled people this time.