Random Shots
Silent night (mostly)
At pretty much all hours of the day and night I can hear the relentless drone of automobilia in the Seattle-area suburb where I live. Thus, it’s a real treat to visit Quinault, which is […]
Land use
Random Shots
Homeless campers forced to go somewhere else
The growth in homelessness in the Pacific Northwest has resulted in increasingly large numbers of people living in their cars, campers and trailers. The above photograph from a year ago shows an encampment along a […]
Readings
Autopia: Cars and Culture
This collection of roughly 50 essays covers a broad range of topics. For example, Jane Jacobs considered the subtleties of how people could better interact with cars in urban centers; Geremie Barme discussed the “revolutionary” nature […]