Reclaiming alleys has been a frequent topic both here, and in other blogs and media. Some cities have specialty blogs devoted to alleys, including Seattle architect Daniel Toole’s intriguiging Alleys of Seattle Blog, embedded below, which is well worth following.
Category: infrastructure
one more postcard not to send to an urbanist
One more, this time in the embedded video below.
Your urbanist friends will not like the Burb Twins, potential antagonists to the new development and consumption patterns which characterize Richard Florida’s The Great Reset.
Enjoy, and for the original “six postcards not to send to an urbanist,” click here.
ode to the street: grate and cover edition
Click below for a multimedia tribute to “little places”: the industrial grates and covers which have graced urban rights-of-way since Roman times. These street-level barriers provide public safety and maintenance gateways to the inner workings of infrastructure. Like coins, they carry symbols and patterns from industrial process, often symbolizing local heritage or factory name.
“streets for people”–the watercolor
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.
two postcards of an urbanist nightmare
Envision this dream sequence of right-of-way confusion, contrasting a portion of Rome’s legendary Via Appia (the “queen of the long roads” of ancient military transport and commerce) with an American suburban street.
The scary part? No sidewalks.
