In Bath, England, the posture of a street mime inspires inquiry as to his role–is he merely emulating a statue, or is he performing aside a public right of way because he has been denied the opportunity in a private place?
Category: pedestrianism
Making wok-able urbanism more walkable
Discussions by Christopher Leinberger and others frequently reference “walkable urbanism,” premised upon increasingly compact, dense neighborhoods.
Ironically, on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, one of the city’s best examples of such neighborhood form, the evening depictions below show the historic, auto-based Dick’s Drive-In as a pedestrian center. Nearby, a classic parking area stands in front of a wok venue.
As the everyday urbanism of neighborhoods such as Capitol Hill evolve, chances are that “wok-able” and “walkable” will more completely align.
This article appeared in slightly different form in Crosscut, here.
two postcards: posing in the city
A woman and girl, of diverse age, show respective urban gestures: one of universal cellphone pragmatism, and the other of wistful play on a screened balcony.
ode to the street: grate and cover edition
Click below for a multimedia tribute to “little places”: the industrial grates and covers which have graced urban rights-of-way since Roman times. These street-level barriers provide public safety and maintenance gateways to the inner workings of infrastructure. Like coins, they carry symbols and patterns from industrial process, often symbolizing local heritage or factory name.
Jerusalem stories: it all depends where you stand
Several earlier myurbanist entries assessed the complexities of urban issues in Israel and Jerusalem, ranging from light rail to perspectives on sustainability. Today, a dry brush filtered photograph, adapted to video, shows the multiplicity of issues at play in one urban view (view full screen if you can).
After all, in Jerusalem, it all depends where you stand.
“Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem.”
Talmud: Kiddushin 49b“Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel…”
Benjamin Netanyahu“That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.”
Ali A. Saleh“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.”
Thomas Paine