walkable urbanism–four renderings

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.




what if Thoreau had received a demolition order?

The pending cottage reconstruction at the edge of Seattle’s Madrona Woods evokes the question.


five postcards of pedestrian primacy

Forever ageless, they own the streets and byways around the world.





eras of Seattle, layered and evolving

Layers of Seattle reveal building materials, transportation and infrastructure, forever evolving.

pedestrian commerce, here and there

An alluring vignette of “street food” at Seattle’s weekend Fremont market yields to rich, walk-through experiences of historic markets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.