From Seattle’s Green Lake, here is evidence that vibrant urban businesses can use new forms of “storefront” to interact with public space.
See the related posts below for previous commentary on street-vending urbanism.
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.
urbanist online discoveries, part 3 and myurbanist sustainability sightings update
This entry presents two of my favorite, cutting edge blogs, one venerable and accomplished, one new.
First, long-time blogger and thought leader of the built environment-social media interface, Cindy Frewen Wuellner (@urbanverse), continues to innovate on her blog, urbanverse’s posterous, particularly with recent entries on sustainable design under the “True Green” moniker. Be sure and review.
Second, from Venezuela, architect Ana Maria Manzo’s (@anammanzo) “the place of dreams” will charm you with compelling imagery and straightforward introspection about career and on-the-ground outcomes. Great reading for we lawyer/designer-wannabe’s. Please follow the link just provided.
Finally, thanks also to two accomplished online portals for recent references.
Richard Layman, of the comprehensive well-researched placemaking standby Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space provided a valued link to myurbanist yesterday.
Acknowledgements as well to the ever-diligent Seattle Transit Blog, for its recent use of myurbanist material in ongoing coverage of light rail expansion issues in the Seattle area.
urban density and the domestic streetscape: two postcards
What can be more demonstrative of the intersection of urban density, domestic life and the public domain than the streetscape of laundry in the sun?
the urban experience of a city sunset down under
At Melbourne’s St. Kilda Beach, the colors of the night descend to the walkable shore.
iconic renditions of urban settlement, Aegean-style
One iconic prerequisite to modern land use regulation–the ancient Greek delineation of public space at a town’s center–is well documented from surviving boundary stones, which read, “I am the boundary of the Agora”.
Modern, original imagery of foundational urban places in Greece can be similarly inspiring, and ultimately symbolic of elemental characteristics of human settlement amid hills and sea.
