As we first described in “urban radar and finding places of scale”, here, some urban spaces captivate in an indelible way. Consider the look and feel of this human-scale courtyard, adjacent to the Latin Patriarch Road near Jaffa Gate just inside Jerusalem’s Old City.
An inadvertent cityscape graces Seattle in late May.
(Daniels Development preserved the last historic church building in Seattle’s central business district as part of the pending Fifth+Columbia development project).
On Saladin Street in East Jerusalem, photographs show the 1975-2010 evolution of a place still not sure of the meaning of “there”.
In the contested urban environment, declaratory words in public places often move messages from subtle to apparent.
In pre-war Palestine, the Bauhaus or international style of architecture proliferated, particularly in Tel Aviv, due to a professional exodus from Germany during the 1930’s. Jerusalem also features Bauhaus buildings, complemented by the local stone characteristic of the city. Today, in Israel, the street environment in both cities benefits from the characteristic space-versus-mass emphasis, often providing an enduring sense of adjacent public space.
