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

Hunyadi tér

■ Is there a more pleaiurable way to buy the week’s veggies, than straight from the source?

much-needed colour but it would be important for the rest of the square to come up to the same level. The dog run is inadequate for any but the tiniest pooch, and the sports facilities are quite barren. Plans for the near future call for the square to be revitalized, so hopefully all these problems will be remedied. The conflict at Hunyadi tér is not unlike at several other places in the city in the last few years. Essentially, the question comes down to whether an underground parking garage solves the parking problem by removing parked cars from the streets, or aggravates it further by increasing traffic to an unbearable level as a result of making car transport far too easy in a neighbourhood that was not at all designed to accommodate it. In visiting other cities (Copenhagen, Stockholm) where safe pedestrian locomotion is treated as a human right, and driving/parking a car a special privilege that can be revoked at will, it's not difficult to see why it's dan30