Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Klauzál tér

gerous and foolish to make life easy for those with cars. It seems unrealistic to believe there is a finite number of cars that will come to a given area and that providing more parking spaces will simply end the problem rather than exacerbating it. For as someone once said, adding more traffic lanes to solve traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to solve obesity.

Klauzál tér

This place is perpetually crowded and bustling. It’s difficult to say whether that is testimony to its quality as a neighbourhood public space, or evidence of the fact that this district is so intensely built up that it has less green space per capita than just about any other in Budapest. Perhaps it’s a little of both, but at any rate, Klauzál tér is well-used and well-loved.

Klauzál wins no awards for innovative design solutions. Its angular and irregular pavements divide the various functions in a no-nonsense sort of way — picnic tables here, playground there, dog run over there, and so on. In the warm months the square is cheered up with splashes of colour from annual plantings in circular spaces between the paving. It is surrounded on

■ "Fríendóhip needi no wordi — it i& iotitude delivered from the anguiih of loneli- neu." - Dag Hammankjöld

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