street vending and street dining urbanists

We can take back the street with new right of way permitting schemes, new forms of licensing, some revised insurance and simple inspiration from afar…

DSC_0086_JPGP1000296IMG00330-20090609-1310IMG_0648_JPGImage04DSC_0436_JPGDSC_0170_JPGIMG_0654_JPG

which street scene are you?

A refined version of the previous posting also appears in seattle pi.com today:

comparative urbanism, part 11 (density can be fun edition)

Urbanized portions of Malta are the most densely populated in Europe. Below, the morning shoppers of the capital city of Valletta contrast with an autocentric Fremont street in Seattle. Which experience inspires you? Do you feel safer among the crowd, or with the cars?

DSC_0191

IMG00033-20091205-1200

comparative urbanism, part 10 (crusader port and venetian realm edition)

Sometimes, to add gloss to the urban density and compact development debates, there is no harm to escaping to Akko (Acre) in Israel, Sveti Stefan in Montenegro or Dubrovnik and Rovinj in Croatia…

sc0005affe02

sc0005affe04

sc0005affe09

sc003806c6