Loading ...As I discussed when talking with Jed, one of our primary goals with the Linkery is to help create a viable, pedestrian- (and bicycle-) oriented urban community, both by being a workplace we can walk/bike to, and by being a third place for our neighborhood.
That’s why it was so gratifying to see this at our celebration on Thursday.
This photo not from Portland, San Francisco, or Seattle
Speaking of New Urbanism (which is the framework for us, in an urban planning sense), I recently ran across this post from CoolTown Studios which recaps the 13 points of pedestrian-oriented development as detailed by one of the leading firms in the field. I had read these points a few years ago, and they definitely still bubble around in my mind. It struck me when reading them again that not only do they apply to how we perceive our use of space in the city, we also applied some of the principles (a clear center, narrow streets, variety of living types) within the design of the restaurant interior itself. I think that dynamic urban design, itself being a model for felicitous human living, may be pretty fractal.
Other photos from the weekend’s celebration:
Joel, Matt and Jon prepare for business
Chuck Silva of Green Flash presents us a commemorative bottle of Super Freak
Everyone says handmade cheese
The night coasts to a close
Thanks for doing what you do. BTW, I just took a new job in Hillcrest, so it’ll be easier for me to drop by more often.