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An article in the Seattle journal Crosscut makes a suggestion: name the city's alleys. These unnamed streets have stories to tell, and the scale of the opportunity is significant:
For the record, according to Seattle's Department of Transportation, the city has documented an estimated 144 miles of improved (paved) alleyways, and an additional 119 miles of unimproved, meaning there are at least 263 miles of alleys in Seattle. That's a lot of potential room for new names, especially if they are named in segments....It's not that everyone will listen or understand or care, but in shaping a city, the names are a way of weaving place and binding us to it, of not simply finding our way around the terrain, but of teaching us about the city that inspires us and the people it has produced. The names help us feel invested, part of things. They raise questions for which we sometimes seek the answers. I remember as a student being asked to research the background of public school names. Who were Asa Mercer and John Muir? The named landscape is no longer a cold grid, no longer a collection of geographic features, but a living place that talks to us.
We have some musicians portraits shot in surreal alley way work on our studio website which Alexander James shot just recently
STUDIO.. http://www.DistilEnnui.com
BLOG.. http://www.DistilEnnui.com/blog
and the entire collection can be found at our stock & canvas print website http://www.AlexanderJamesStockPhotography.com
Posted by: aj | 04/19/2010 at 06:37