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.
In Jerusalem, the camera pans from the Old City’s Temple Mount, across the Mount of Olives, into the Kidron Valley (the legendary “Valley of Death”) and Silwan, currently the focus of well-publicized controversy concerning efforts by the Jerusalem municipality to demolish homes and relocate residents in favor of restored, archeological-themed parkland. For additional background, click here for an earlier myurbanist entry.
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.
Just outside of Tel Aviv, Better Place displays a subscription model, “open-network infrastructure” approach to world-wide adoption of electric vehicle technology.
Here is introductory imagery of Better Place’s new demonstration center, as well as our Seattle-based i-SUSTAIN group’s opportunity to meet with renowned Founder and CEO Shai Agassi. Better Place technology and programming is now in development on an impressive scale in, inter alia, Israel, Denmark, Australia, Japan and China.
Here is an additional video of comments by Mr. Agassi, with thanks to i-SUSTAIN:
All urbanists should bike where history lies waiting.
Welcome to the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City by bicycle at night.