Towards dusk in Seattle, four buildings gain strength as they discuss Neal Peirce’s article, “Cities as Global Stars“, a timely piece addressing the central place of the urban future.
Category: urban views
streets in plain view from a distance
A new trend features photographers’ translations of Google Street View scenes—accompanied by remarkable creative messaging—often topical to urban issues.
One such effort, Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture, focuses on challenged American cities such as Camden and Detroit, and displays a world remarkably opposite the technology used to depict his presented scenes. Click here to see his groundbreaking work.
Similarly, words are not always necessary to describe how public rights of way are used around the world, and travel is not a prerequisite of viewing the interaction of foot, wheel and pavement.
Here, without more words, are portrayals of a Sunday morning visit to Japan, Mexico, Brazil and Finland, with both familiar and novel interactions in plain view.
Credit the wonders of Google for these street-oriented images, and Mr. Rickard for inspiring the myurbanist use of camera and software to enhance such virtual visits from afar.
the community bulletin board, remembered
Before social networking, central posting places in urban settings blended local culture with information provision. In concentrated urban neighborhoods, the tradition lives on, and should not be forgotten.
two postcards of urbanist insomnia
Sleepless urbanists toss and turn with nocturnal visions of strip malls, after hours, where cars seek community in the halogen glow.
evidence of a happiness city?
Several have written about building a city around happiness, and how to measure the cumulative “urban smile”.
Does the spontaneous expression below—an artistic grin—tell the story?
