"To make communities safer and more appealing, you should first remove the traditional paraphernalia of their roads"."That means the traffic lights and speed signs; the signs exhorting drivers to stop, slow down and merge; the center lines separating lanes from each other; even the speed bumps, speed-limit signs, bicycle lanes and pedestrian crossings. In his view, it is only when the road is made more dangerous, when drivers stop looking at signs and start looking at other people, that driving becomes safer.
"Essentially, what it means is a transfer of power and responsibility from the state to the individual and the community," Hans Monderman, traffic engineer cum social interaction designer from Drachten, Netherlands.
( Road design? He calls it a revolution )
Драхтен у чёрта на рогах, а так бы я смотался, посмотрел. Но поездка в Фрисландию у нас как-то давно, хотя и вяло телепается в планах, так что может быть и случится.
Вот одна из его последних презентаций; фотографии всё *до боли знако

57 миллиардов? пять десятков и ещё семь? 
Джон Маеда (John Maeda) объясняет принципы гипер-простоты в дизайне (over-simplicity) на примере