Category: placemaking

Jerusalem stories: it all depends where you stand

On By Chuck WolfeIn Israel, multimedia, pedestrianism, placemaking, politics, urban abstractions, urban views4 Comments

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

renderings of walkable urbanism–the video

On By Chuck WolfeIn multimedia, pedestrianism, placemaking, sustainability, urban abstractions, urban views11 Comments

For the original still renderings, see here, here and here.

“streets for people”–the watercolor

On By Chuck WolfeIn everyday urbanism, infrastructure, pedestrianism, placemaking, sustainability, urban abstractions, urban views7 Comments

If watercolors had graced Bernard Rudofsky’s 1969 book, Streets for People, perhaps this Middle East representation would have appeared in the chapter, “The Street is Where the Action Is”. PS: For those wanting to move beyond Jane Jacobs, Rudofsky is a must-read.

the fantastical aura of an urban square

On By Chuck WolfeIn pedestrianism, placemaking, urban abstractions, urban views7 Comments

Shadows and illumination create a unique use of space by night.

walkable urbanism–four renderings

On By Chuck WolfeIn pedestrianism, placemaking, sustainability, Uncategorized, urban abstractions, urban views3 Comments

Abstractions often send messages and inspiration for change.

Here are four stylized renderings based on myurbanist photographs, commissioned to further contemporary dialogue about urban experience by foot, and to enhance our sense of the possible.

In each case, the artist has responded to the original imagery in ways that emphasize native interaction with public space. Click on each image for more detail.