Posts Tagged ‘Urban design’
Jane Austen’s Bath, England
The formal and elegant city of Bath is an exquisite example of a planned city. If “city” and “jumbled” go together for you, a city as harmonious as Bath will take a bit of getting used to. Built along the Avon river and its gentle slopes, white and cream buildings form grand avenues and crescents beyond the town…
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New York’s South Street Seaport
It’s hard to think of bustling, spire-jammed Manhattan as an island, with miles of river frontage. For centuries, the waterfront was meant for work, not pleasure. But in the last several decades that’s changed, and redevelopment is occuring all along the coasts, notably Battery Park and more recently, Hudson Yards. The South Street Seaport waterfront…
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