Almost perfect spaces don’t come along that often. This combination of street width to building height, an organic urbanism that bending and twisting with vista points m. View at dusk down Rua de Augusto Rosa towards the Cathedral of Lisbon Portugal
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Embracing Ancient Wisdom: Designing a Village Inspired by Songlines 🌏
the ancient, invisible pathways that crisscross the landscape, carrying the stories, knowledge, and spirituality of the indigenous people of Australia for tens of thousands of years.
In urban places with steep topography steps provide mobility and additional connectivity tho ADA challenging historic places include cross streets that gently ascend at tops and bottoms of these mostly short runs providing additional accessibility and mobility. Lisbon Portugal.
@stevemouzon@NewUrbanism These are more intimate than most NU rear lanes and are like the alleys in historic neighborhoods where I grew up. Ideally when lots are 50’ wide so cars can turn in. But it does preclude more narrow building types?
These famous steps continue 36th Street, descending from the corner of Prospect St and 36th St NW, in Georgetown Washington, D.C. built in 1895 during construction of the adjacent Capital Traction Company Barn for cable cars, serving as a lightwell and public right of way.
Old Salem Village North Carolina is an historic agrarian self-sufficient community embedded in the city of Winston Salem. The intimate streets and small incremental buildings with a square and although now urban, is still surrounded by an agrarian belt.
When retreating to receiving places w/ low climate change risk, how should buildings adapt to the locale? Linville NC’s localized mountain style uses natural/local materials inclu. bark shingles, unstripped logs, lattice railings, in 19th/20th c. revival, shingle, and neo-tutor.
These skinny streets & tiny houses in historic urban Philadelphia are narrow, but include vehicular lanes, sidewalks, trees, stoops, and gardens. Many Trinity houses are 14’ wide, 3 stories w/ 1 room per floor. Originally affordable housing, these are very desirable today.