From Urbanizing to Urban, According to My Facebook Cover Page

During a year filled with four trips abroad and two months away, many of my 2014 Facebook cover photos helped fill my yearly urban and exurban diaries.

Themes address the overlapping (and therefore hardly mutually exclusive) nuances of habitation, history, cityscape, landscape and ecology.

France, Italy, Monaco, Scotland, Spain and the United States all unfold below according to these categories, in a fashion intended to memorialize an extraordinary 2014.

Habitation

Saint-Tropez

Seattle Haircut

Milan

Paris

Oban, Scotland

Seattle, Lake City Way

In Marjorie, Seattle

The Ice Cream Laundromat, Seattle

Madrona Scene, Seattle

Seattle, Fifth Avenue

Nice, France Summertime

On Lake Union, Seattle

Vaison la Romaine

Seattle Bench

Roslyn, Washington

History

Jaca, Spain

St. Andrews, Scotland

Seattle Art Museum

Cityscape

Saint-Tropez

Skyline, Bellevue, Washington

Seattle Skyline

The Promenade, Nice

Monte Carlo


Edinburgh Panorama

Glasgow, River Clyde

Glasgow

Seattle, Sheraton and Sky

Ballard Bridge, Seattle

Landscape

Sunset Provençal


Riviera from Afar


From Spain to France

In the Palouse I

In the Palouse II

Ecology

Seattle

Lake and Mountain, Seattle

Mount Rainier from Seattle

On Lake Washington, Seattle

Near Kirkland, Washington

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For more information on the role of personal experience in understanding the changing city, see Urbanism Without Effort, an e-book from Island Press.

This post first appeared in similar form in myurbanist, here.