Category: Streetscapes

  • Now that’s a Sidewalk

    I couldn’t resist posting this. It’s a sidewalk just outside our hotel in Prague. The care to make a border around a water meter lid shows a regard for the public realm that we just don’t find in the United States. I can only dream that we could have sidewalks with this much love in…

  • More from Japan: Should Standards be Standard?

    [Editor’s note – contributor Rick Browning is currently in Japan studying urban streetcape issues, supported by a grant from the Architectural Foundation of Oregon.] Konichi wa Portland Transport Gang! Still in Japan. It has been more challenging than I thought trying to sketch, diagram, keep a journal, interview Japanese designers and planners and — do…