street-furniture
street-furniture. Anything erected on pavements or streets, including bollards, railings, lamp-posts, pissoirs, post-boxes, street-signs, telephone-kiosks, entrances to subways or undeground railways, often of cast iron.often of cast iron.
Bibliography
Design Council (1974);
Glancey (1989a);
Johannessen (1994);
Stamp (1989)
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