On September 10, planetizen noted the September 9 Crosscut article by myurbanist’s alter ego. Soon, we’ll know the answer.
Category: sustainability
the quotation for Copenhagen: “What is the use of a [fine] house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
On the way to Copenhagen and current focus on climate change, the familiar Thoreau quotation has been renewed by many. Images can remind us of past relationships of housing, changing modes of transportation and the planet, and provide backdrop for current progressive norms which advocate for a more sustainable future.
In Seattle, housing still graces the path of the cable car that ascended Yesler and ended in Frink Park above Leschi, from 1888 until replaced by buses in 1940:
Across the world, two Italian images from former donkey trails–now walking paths–show a farmhouse between Monterosso and Vernazza in the Cinque Terre, and an abandoned stone structure on the Sentiero degli dei on the Amalfi Coast. 
Going forward, as we adapt transportation and land use patterns to continue goals of emission reduction, can we use these “anachronistic landscapes” (about which J.B. Jackson and others have written) in concert with Seattle’s pending Comprehensive Plan update and companion plans and programs in order to craft a vision of the post-Copenhagen future?
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…
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?
U.S. to unleash millions for streetcar, bus projects to reduce pollution | Oregon Environmental News – – OregonLive.com
Key news reported from light rail utopia, befitting of certain Puget Sound regional visions: