walkable urbanism–four renderings

Abstractions often send messages and inspiration for change.

Here are four stylized renderings based on myurbanist photographs, commissioned to further contemporary dialogue about urban experience by foot, and to enhance our sense of the possible.

In each case, the artist has responded to the original imagery in ways that emphasize native interaction with public space. Click on each image for more detail.




remembering an urban space from a dream, part 2

In Otranto, the most southeastern point in Italy, a captivating urban space awakens in moonlight.


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.

pedestrians mingling with memories

At the Fallen Firefighter’s Memorial in Seattle’s Occidental Park, pedestrian onlookers mingle with memories.

what if Thoreau had received a demolition order?

The pending cottage reconstruction at the edge of Seattle’s Madrona Woods evokes the question.