Comments on: Olympic 2012 Park landscape and architecture https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/ Gardenvisit.com Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:29:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: George Hargreaves as landscape architect for the 2012 London Olympic Park | Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog – Gardenvisit.com https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4046 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:29:12 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4046 […] the first questioner made the point I raised on this webpage when the site was chosen and made again more recently: ‘what about the existing site and its memorability?’ ‘Ha’, said George, […]

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4045 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:31:54 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4045 Tom it seems this is part of a continuing British tradition with umbrella useage. [ http://meish.org/2008/07/09/when-commuters-start-using-umbrellas-as-weapons-its-time-to-leave-town/ ]

However, one of the rioters as you rightly point out didn’t pay sufficient attention to “how to…” [ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8695058/London-rioters-umbrella-attack-on-police-ridiculed-online.html ]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4044 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:38:48 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4044 Christine, it is just a humorous print by Thomas Rowlandson and he explained “Should it be a rainy day, and you use an umbrella, pay no regard to breaking a few shop-windows in your passage’.
Yuan, I follow an old tradition in trying to make jokes in bad circumstances. An example is the famous cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather ‘if you know a better hole – go to it‘.

]]> By: Tian Yuan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4043 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:05:34 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4043 Tom, it is not a good idea to teach teenagers that how to loot a shop… If Jerry knows it, troubles will come!

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4042 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:14:07 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4042 Do you know what there motivation for wanting to break a window with an umbrella was in these prints? Is it the Victoria equivalent of road rage due to traffic congestion?

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4041 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:45:28 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4041 Once a ‘crime wave’ starts many people are drawn in, reminding me of the joke about an Irishman who came across a brawl in a pub and asked ‘is this a private fight – or can anyone join in?’

All offers of police help from Australia, in dealing with the Olympics, and from France, in dealing with car-burning, will be most gratefully accepted by me at least.

But ‘when in Rome, do as the Roman’s do’ so perhaps visitors to London should learn, from an illustration in the Bodleian, how to break a shop window with an umbrella and here is some more recent advice on how to set a car alight:

THINGS NEEDED:
1. GASOLINE OR ALCOHOL BASE LIQUID
2. PAPER TOWELS
3. A CANDLE AND LIGHTER

METHOD:
1 HOLD THE LIGHTER IN THE RIGHT HAND
2. APPLY IT TO THE PAPER SOAKED IN GASOLINE OR ALCOHOL AND FLICK THE SWITCH
3.WATCH IT BURN

http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=70056

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4040 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:07:48 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4040 Unfortuneately (3) “you need not worry if you do not own a shop and are not a policeman” does not seem to be universally true. [ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-10/man-helped-to-feet-then-robbed-during-london-riots/2832942 ]

However (1) and (2) are most probably correct. The police force undoubtably could be supplemented with security personnel and defence personnel. Another possibility would be to strengthen the police presence with personnel from other countries such as Australia who have recent Olympic experience. The experience of such international exchanges (common during the aftermath of natural disasters) seems to benefit all involved.
[ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/secondment ]

Alternatively, and ironically it seems that demand in policing positions have been created almost overnight.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4039 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:15:23 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4039 I agree about the Riot Act – see blog post http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2011/08/10/london-recreational-looting-in-august-2011/
But I do not think anyone need fear about the safety of visitors to the 2012 Olympics (1) the police will be crawling everywhere (2) the police are good at dealing with the expected and bad at dealing with the unexpected (3) the August 2011 ‘events’ are not a political protest or an attack with any other purpose than looting – so you do not need to worry if you do not own a shop and are not a policeman.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4038 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:41:29 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4038 I wonder when they will be read the Riot Act? [ http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/read-the-riot-act.html ]

It was very sad to see looting in Lousiana after Hurricane Katrina when governance structures were disrupted by the natural disaster, but even sadder to see it in London where the similar unexpected nature of the events has overwhelmed the civil response mechanisms.

It seems apart from the devastating impact on the populous much heritage is also being lost.

As to causes? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_London_riots ] Something similar in its genesis occurred on Palm Island in 2004. [ http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/palm-d03.shtml ].

It would be a shame if fear prevented Jerry from going to the Olympics next year.

]]> By: Jerry https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/olympic-2012-park-landscape-and-architecture-2/#comment-4037 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:10:12 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7330#comment-4037 I have given up tp buy any tickets in London. Will Olympic be held as planned next year in London? It is a question. Too scared!

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