#2 A morning walk through Palermo, Sicily

Palermo's skyline

Interesting sidewalk detail where building sits below street level.

#1 A morning walk through Palermo, Sicily

#3 People and Public Space

Kington High Street in Heredfordshire, England...watching the world go by.

#2 People and Public Space

More people using public plazas and streets in Hay-on-Wye and London in England and Palermo in Sicily for to eat, to rest, to chat, to work.

#1 People and Public Space

Series of people using public spaces in London, England and Taormina, Siracusa, Trapani and Cefalu all in Sicily.

Chinatown, San Francisco

A fascinating and richly detailed street scene in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Everyday Urbanism in Los Angeles

I have just finished reading "Everyday Urbanism" by Margaret Crawford, John Chase and John Kaliski. Instead of focusing on the carefully planned and designed places that we are used to seeing in glossy magazines, the authors of this book focus on the incidental or spontaneous places and spaces created by urban dwellers themselves. Here are a few I have seen in and around Los Angeles...a corner cafe, a mural on a staircase, a barbershop under a house and a cupcake vending truck.