Category: Israel

my-turbanist, camels and transit modes: the postcard

On By Chuck WolfeIn everyday urbanism, Israel, postcards, sustainability, transit oriented development, urban views10 Comments

In another postcard for your urbanist, transit-oriented friends, an interurban transit operator guards himself from the sun.

For an additional reference, consider Stephen Killion’s June 24 Architizer post, which provides the nineteenth century history of the U.S. Camel Corps as a prologue to a discussion of transit issues in Los Angeles. He ironically warns that without care, new transit proposals of the Obama-era could go the way of the failed allocation of 28 camels to the city for cargo purposes as part of the Camel Corps’ downsizing in 1863.

myurbanist sustainability sightings

On By Chuck WolfeIn compact development, everyday urbanism, infill development, Israel, pedestrianism, placemaking, sustainability, urban views7 Comments

Since our six month recap of myurbanist sightings in late April, further recent sightings merit additional thanks.

In particular, thanks to Planetizen for carrying the first Jerusalem urban sustainability piece of our Israel series, to Kaid Benfield for multiple kind references to our backyard cottage articles and initial postcard piece in his NDRC Switchboard blog and reprints in The Huffington Post and the Daily Kos. (See also Kaid’s great new blog post, “Musings on vacation sites, consumption, and resilient communities”, here).

Thanks again to Knute Berger for reference to myurbanist in his May, 2010 Seattle Magazine column.

And a final, special thanks to CH2MHill’s ever-improving Green Growth Cascadia blog (especially Jeanne Acutanza and Wesley Zhao) for reference to our Nord Alley piece and the current “Green Growth Profile” of myurbanist and background pontificator, as embedded below. Seattle’s Great City also provided a nice summary of the profile and the context for myurbanist, here.

Jerusalem stories: it all depends where you stand

On By Chuck WolfeIn Israel, multimedia, pedestrianism, placemaking, politics, urban abstractions, urban views4 Comments

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