Can you walk from wok to wok on Capitol Hill?

In a city where Asian cuisines mixes with the all-American hamburger, walking from dining spot to dining spot can be part of urbanism.
In a city where Asian cuisines mixes with the all-American hamburger, walking from dining spot to dining spot can be part of urbanism.

Discussions by Christopher Leinberger and others frequently reference 'ꀜwalkable urbanism,'ꀝ premised upon increasingly compact, dense neighborhoods.

Ironically, on Seattle's Capitol Hill, one of the city's best examples of such neighborhood form, the evening depictions in the accompanying slideshow demonstrate the historic, auto-based Dick'ꀙs Drive-In as a pedestrian center. Nearby, a classic parking area stands in front of a wok venue.

As the everyday urbanism of neighborhoods such as Capitol Hill evolve, chances are that "wok-able" and "walkable" will more completely align.

This item appeared earlier on the author's site, myurbanist.com.

  

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Chuck Wolfe

Chuck Wolfe

Chuck Wolfe provides a unique perspective about cities as a London-based urbanist writer, photographer, land use consultant and former Seattle land use and environmental attorney.