Over the last few weeks I’ve accumulated several pictures highlighting the best and worst of urban design while walking or biking around my neighborhood in Savannah.
The Good
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- Lush treelawn on a residential street
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- These plants, these porches!
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- Glorious greenery and brick sidewalks
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- Perhaps not the most scenic lane, but a good example of carriage houses and previous pavers.
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- This looks like it used to be a small neighborhood-scale commercial space. It would be nice to see it leased out again.
The Bad
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- This new commercial building has a parking lot facing the street. A stylish wall of breeze blocks cannot make up for a broken street frontage.
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- This pile of sand achieved the dubious distinction of blocking a bicycle lane and clogging up the storm drains.
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- This is a ground level billboard facing a high speed urban arterial surface road.
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- This unfortunate block is missing the access lane typical for this neighborhood – so the owner of this blue home decided to turn a nice urban yard into a driveway and eliminate any semblance of a frontage in the process. Ugh.
The Ugly
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- Tree > Concrete; Vine >Fence.
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- The Lincoln St. Bicycle / Taxi loading lane.
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- Hold my beer…