Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Imaginary Cities

Our last class activity was depicting an ideal city with all the components that defines a perfect city (like Portland, Oregon?). Once I had the freedom to be creative, I began drawing rivers, farmers market, university campuses, cafes, restaurants, libraries, and everything else in a modern building structure. Yeah, my finished product was quite nice, I must say. But it got depressing when Dr. McKinney asked if it would be possible to transform the assigned cities into our imaginary scenery.

If Portland turned itself to a convivial city.

Could you imagine Kalamazoo or Detroit looking like this?
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  1. GIFT MNovember 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM

    It is indeed sad to have/know how perfect cities should look like yet nothing can really be done,at least in the short run

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  2. K-College VolleyballNovember 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM

    Although, Detroit has been suffering quite badly there is still is a lot going on downtown and it definitely has the potential to look like this. (google Detroit at night to see)

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  3. RisrisNovember 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    I think Kalamazoo has its own potential. even though it doesn't have a water front, i think with time it can build its way up. at any rate things wont happen overnight

    aside: loved your picture sam :)

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