One iconic prerequisite to modern land use regulation–the ancient Greek delineation of public space at a town’s center–is well documented from surviving boundary stones, which read, “I am the boundary of the Agora”.
Modern, original imagery of foundational urban places in Greece can be similarly inspiring, and ultimately symbolic of elemental characteristics of human settlement amid hills and sea.
As part of Seattle’s annual Seafair festivities, a Blue Angel maneuvers over the I-90 floating bridge on Lake Washington, adjacent to the close-in suburb of Mercer Island.
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.
Many articles summarize the complex issues associated with Seattle’s viaduct-replacement/deep-bore tunnel debate.
Such articles are often accompanied by a cross-section supplied by the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT), illustrated here.
Inspired by the WSDOT cross-section and ongoing discussion of applicable transit modes, the embedded myurbanist commentary below graphically focuses on but one question along the way.
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”?
