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Sitting: Why it matters to cities' futures

It's one way Seattle and other cities are thinking differently about urban design.
by / November 10, 2013
It's one way Seattle and other cities are thinking differently about urban design.

At TEDCity2.0 in New York City this fall, urban redefinition, reinvention and reimagination ruled. Among the presentations:  that urbanist stand-by, the the most walkable cities in the world.

Mind you, I don't want to upset the gurus and nabobs of urbanism.  But I'm just back from southern France and Corsica, with contrasting images galore, and a new point of view.

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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.