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?
Category: urban views
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.
urbanist air show, over infrastructure
As part of Seattle’s annual Seafair festivities, a Blue Angel maneuvers over the I-90 floating bridge on Lake Washington, adjacent to the close-in suburb of Mercer Island.
revised postcards of urban renewal, cottage style and green
Just under a month ago, a myurbanist entry presented further imagery of renewal in Seattle’s Madrona Woods–with continuing reconstruction photos of a “Thoreau-like cottage”, first shown here.
Today, showing more replacement than reconstruction, a more expansive home rises from the original footprint.
In the era of sustainability, this form of site intensification is one way the urban setting will redevelop while preserving neighborhood look and feel.
