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.
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:
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.
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?
Just under a month ago, a myurbanist entry presented further imagery of renewal in Seattle’s Madrona Woods–with continuing reconstruction photos of a “Thoreau-like cottage”, first shown here.
Today, showing more replacement than reconstruction, a more expansive home rises from the original footprint.
In the era of sustainability, this form of site intensification is one way the urban setting will redevelop while preserving neighborhood look and feel.
Last week, the entry “a palette for placemaking” provided an original, myurbanist rendering of contiguous downtown Seattle urban blocks ripe for contemporary placemaking upon sale of the associated property assemblage.
A resulting Facebook exchange, captured below, shows the ensuing discussion, recalling the “urbandwidth” neologism created here on July 19 and noted in Planetizen.
Is another word in order to describe such social media exchanges? “Urbanter”?
An weekly inventory of online articles and references can be insightful and of immediate assistance to practitioners in urban redevelopment venues.
Every week, Dallas attorney Bob Voelker (@bobdal on Twitter) assembles helpful compilations of such resources gleaned from recent tweets and other resources.
You can find his entries under the links, New Urbanism News and Multifamily Development News.
Thanks to Bob for the resources and the mentions of myurbanist in the past.
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