how are we handling the regional city? a flashback

Posted by – March 13, 2010

November 1955, Bellevue, Washington. Addressing the Bellevue Municipal League, Urban Planning Professor M.R. Wolfe:

1. Notes the emergence of a “new urban form”, the “regional city”, and
2. Stresses that one “principal challenge of our culture” is, inter alia, the “handling of this phenomenon”

March 2010, Bellevue, Washington. Via his offspring:

What do these photographs show? Today, what role does the exurb or suburb play in a “regional city”? How are we “handling this phenomenon”?


2 Comments on how are we handling the regional city? a flashback

  1. crwolfelaw says:

    how are we handing the regional city? a flashback (myurbanist) http://shar.es/mogoB #urban #smartgrowth #cities #seattle

  2. crwolfelaw says:

    myurbanist revisited: how are we handling the regional city? a flashback http://is.gd/doEKO #urbanism #cities #lp

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