As American municipalities attempt to legislate the use of reusable shopping bags–rather than plastic–we ironically shrink-wrap the ideal urban ambiance of an alley stroll.
Author: Chuck Wolfe
Charles R. (Chuck) Wolfe, M.R.P., J.D. provides a unique perspective about cities as both a long time writer about urbanism worldwide and an attorney in Seattle, where he focuses on land use and environmental law and permitting. In particular, his work involves the use of sustainable development techniques and innovative land use regulatory tools on behalf of both the private and public sectors. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, where he teaches land use law at the graduate level. He contributes regularly to several publications including Planetizen, CityLab/The Atlantic Cities, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Grist, seattlepi.com, and Crosscut.com. He blogs at myurbanist.com.
autocentricity and two postcards of an urban archaeology future
Just in from the future. Urban archaeologists have unearthed three remnant “autocentric acoutrements”, and are offering commemorative posters in postcard form.
Witness below.
incremental placemaking: the urban cottage grows
With the transition of seasons, the evolution of renewal in Seattle’s Madrona Woods moves on, with continuing reconstruction images of the “Thoreau-like cottage,” expanded.
This supplement to prior entries, here, here and here, shows a second story now rising from the original footprint. The bottom line: While not remaking a neighborhood in one fell swoop, such small-scale projects may represent the true indicators of the changing American city.
why not unicycle urbanism?
For that quick errand in the compact neighborhood, why not? A passing unicycle in a Seattle suburb led to a brief Labor Day research project, yielding a comprehensive overview from New York last June, embedded below:
an urban postcard: young eyes of the street
In Old Jerusalem, young eyes transcend their surroundings, and look across the world.
