Flowscapes: Designing Infrastructure as Landscape by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Architecture, Landscape
ISBN: 9789461864727
Google: T-d-CwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 55753860
Publisher: TU Delft
Published: 2015-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 4 Landing strip in the E75 in northern Finland

Albeit there is no slogan (Get your kicks on Route 66), the road itself is branded as a tourist destination and lined with shops and Bed & Breakfasts.

In many countries though, the E-route is hard to recognize as one continuous route. In France, the E50 runs on eight different highways, all with a different look and feel, ranging from oldschool national highways to the diabolic Paris Peripherique and state-of-the-art toll roads like the A6. Albeit the main international routes have been given names, for example ‘Autoroute du Soleil’, there is no such label on European route E50. On the other hand, the lack of border control on the E75 gave us a strong feeling of travelling in one system, on one international route linking regions and nations. We managed to pass twenty national borders and board five ferries in a rusty old Benz without carrying the legal papers of the car (which the Dutch police had confiscated during a routine check of the mechanical condition of the car in the week prior to the start of our trip). Often, the border between nations was only visible because of a slight change in the lay-out and appearance of the highway such as different asphalt and different colors of lining and signing.

In this aspect, the E50 was not as relaxed as the E75. The further east, the longer it took to pass the imaginary lines between nations and regions. From the start of our trip, we already knew that it would be virtually impossible to cross some of the borders in the Caucasus. A prelude to this region was the border between Russia and the Ukraine, which took half a day to pass. Besides physical aspects associated with border control (barriers, gates) and red tape (passports, visa), it turned out that there were also invisible borders in other administrative aspects, such as car insurance. During the trip, we had to switch insurance companies, because the Ukraine and Russia were not covered by some. When the engine of our W123 300TD research vehicle broke down in Germany, we were not allowed to take the replacement car offered by the insurance company into the Czech Republic. Our only option, was to drive all the way back to Rotterdam and pick up another research vehicle (a W124 250TD).

3.2 A sense of personal freedom or state surveillance?

Park your car on the hard shoulder of a motorway in the Netherlands and within ten minutes, the police or a service vehicle of the national road authority will arrive, the adjacent highway lane will be closed by means of a digital red cross and your car will get towed away for safety reasons. The cameras along Dutch highways are able to detect any object larger than 50 centimeters. The software is programmed in such a way that anything out of the ordinary is being registered, for example, a vehicle that is not moving.

One of the striking aspects of travelling on

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