GLOBAL STREET TWINNING IN POLYHEDRAL CONFIGURATIONS

COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 16 Sep 2009

Anthony Judge

An Application of Google Earth?

Introduction

Twinning between places has long been explored as a mode of facilitating relationships, sharing expertise and local cultures. This has been most evident in town twinning, or twinning between local authorities. More recently it has been extended, with intergovernmental support, to extend what had been explored in terms of networks of excellence and the like.

There has been little exploration of twinning at an even more local level, namely between streets — within towns, irrespective of whether those towns or their local authorities were themselves twinned. What follows is an exploration of this possibility in the light of the greater level of individual engagement at the neighbourhood level associated with streets. Streets may indeed be twinned across the world, like towns.

However the particularity of what follows is the possibility of detecting, determining and highlighting possible patterns of streets variously around the world. The focus is on the possibility that these may form local elements of global polyhedral configurations encompassing the world.

The argument is that the local-global link established by street twinning in this way may constitute an imaginative catalyst of value to the challenge of global coherence and global governance in response to global challenges that call for local engagement. A particular focus is given to the role of software facilities, such as Google Earth, in enabling the detection and formation of such street twinning configurations.

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