Chicago Snap: People Spot on Southport
This little “People spot” or parking spot park on Southport is actually something I came across and smiled at way back in September but only just got around to posting. […]
This little “People spot” or parking spot park on Southport is actually something I came across and smiled at way back in September but only just got around to posting. […]
The visual contrast between the canals of old Amsterdam and the recent new developments being constructed on newly built islands in the IJ lake which abuts the city. The concept […]
This trip by bus and train isn’t exactly a place but any journey is a series of places and I certainly have a lot to say on the subject of […]
Naturally there is more to Athens than the Acropolis these days. There’s quite a bit more since the city now holds 4 million people spread across a wide valley pretty […]
The curbs in Rome are all marble. One of the things this trip has made very clear for me is how young the national borders of Europe are. Most of […]
NB: This post owes its historical content both to the previously mentioned “History of European Urbanization,” and also to an excellent lecture I tagged along for given to Prof. Saloojee’s […]
NB: What follows is highly cribbed from my notes of the excellent “History of European Urbanization” course taught by Robert Ostergren at UW Madison, Spring 2004. Rome began as a […]
I had a lovely last morning in Barcelona – kind of a greatest hits of the main city stroll. I wanted to get photos of some of the things I’d […]
Sketch by Cedric Price, English architect and architectural theorist and author of Non-Plan: essays on freedom participation and change in modern architecture and urbanism. via Per Square Mile
These images by Christoph Gielen in the New York Times caught my eye recently. I think I will simply post them without any commentary on the subject matter they so beautifully […]