Spinola Bay in St. Julian’s, Malta, is an icon of compact development in the small island country south of Sicily.
Thanks to photo-manipulation, this historic locale of fishing boats and pirate ships also yields the urbanist fantasy community of “Density Bay”.
Enjoy the visit, and view in full screen mode with sound on, if possible!
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
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.
Shadows and illumination create a unique use of space by night.
