The Importance of Corners
Chuck Wolfe focuses on the role of the urban corner, terming it "the central place of urban life".
Wolfe quotes Camus and Tolkien to represent the pivotal role that corners play, and includes a handful of images to illustrate his point.
Wolfe writes:
"[U]rban corners may represent the best, most visible and pragmatic opportunity to reorient our cities, and become nothing short of the baseline -- the building blocks -- for reinvention of city neighborhoods in the new millennium."
Thanks to Chuck Wolfe
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Published on Sunday, June 12, 2011 in
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