From Seattle’s Green Lake, here is evidence that vibrant urban businesses can use new forms of “storefront” to interact with public space.
See the related posts below for previous commentary on street-vending urbanism.
Category: urbandwidth
urban density and the domestic streetscape: two postcards
What can be more demonstrative of the intersection of urban density, domestic life and the public domain than the streetscape of laundry in the sun?
the urban experience of a city sunset down under
At Melbourne’s St. Kilda Beach, the colors of the night descend to the walkable shore.
iconic renditions of urban settlement, Aegean-style
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.
today’s placemaking dialogue unfolds: “urbanter”?
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”?
