Urbanism
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Over on Bluesky, STLRainbow shared an image of the 1875 Compton and Dry Maps featuring the near northside of St. Louis. A typical St. Louis block in this image is ~2 acres. Take this block bounded by Carr, Biddle, 10th, and 11th. To the right of Biddle Street (unmarked), you can see the Shrine of
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It is often enough said that Seattle is a North/South city. The street grid is built to move people up and down the map, but not over and across it. For Southeast Seattle, pedestrians and cyclists live this truth to an even greater degree. While the city has invested in healthy streets and protected bike
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In Arizona, Culdesac Tempe is a new car-free mixed-use development. Built along Phoenix’s streetcar line, it promises something that is rare across the United States. Even in America’s colonial era neighborhoods, cars are a fact of life. But in one of the country’s most sprawling metropolitan areas, someone is taking the chance that some would
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As I took an evening stroll from my apartment in Uptown through Belltown, I looked in on restaurants, bars, and storefronts. As if I shared a modernized point of view with Edward Hopper’s 1942 Nighthawks. Belltown is a cool neighborhood. Filled with bars, restaurants, businesses, it’s also one on the most populated neighborhoods in the
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I was sitting in one of the dimly lit brutalist halls – which one it was has faded from my memory – on the University of Washington campus in the Summer of 2015. The grad student teaching Geography of Cities (GEOG 277) had assigned homework for us to bring forward a song that explored urban
Tony Chiado 