Townscape Gordon Cullen [cracked]

Today, Cullen’s ideas are so embedded in urban design that we often use them without knowing their source. When a city builds a "shared space" intersection without traffic lights, it is using Cullen’s theory of visual friction. When a developer creates a "snickelway" (a hidden footpath) to surprise walkers, they are applying Serial Vision.

"It is the contrast," Cullen wrote, "that creates the emotion." townscape gordon cullen