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?