Viewed from above, organic forms of settlement often echo the topography of place, display spontaneous patterns and converse with the sky.
Category: postcards
the inadvertent wonder of a strategic urban view
If a hill town can be an icon of placemaking (as posited here), then the associated strategic view, often guarding a valley, can be an unintentional aesthetic wonder.
Here, the Roya Valley shines in the splendor of an autumn sunset from the terrace-like and historic Saorge, France.
a re-cycling postcard: the most sustainable bicycle in Italy
Outside of Turin, Italy, a bicycle sees new life in the garden. Re-cycling, literally, observed on the current myurbanist trip abroad.
a postcard of pedestrian priority
An entry sign to the center of Moscow, Idaho, provides looming new infrastructure in its own right, and symbolizes efforts nationwide to remake auto-prone venues.
Signage, even in commanding edifice form, is but one element of a comprehensive approach to “complete streets”, and dovetails with an effective monitoring and enforcement strategy.
autocentricity and two postcards of an urban archaeology future
Just in from the future. Urban archaeologists have unearthed three remnant “autocentric acoutrements”, and are offering commemorative posters in postcard form.
Witness below.
