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Informationen zum Autor Tera Hatfield, a Seattle native, is a design director with a background in visual design and architecture. Her diverse work focuses on the intersection of digital and physical spaces. Jenny Kempson is a multidisciplinary designer with a background in urban design, psychology, and human geography. She continuously explores ways to connect people to places through design. Natalie Ross, a landscape architect with a background in cartography, focuses on the design of urban environments, and works at a Seattle landscape architecture firm. Klappentext "This visually rich cultural atlas of Seattle explores the mercurial nature of place through the lens of one of the fastest growing cities in America. Through both experiential and data-driven cartography, Seattleness lends itself to longtime residents, newcomers to the city, and those curious about the moody borough that has brought us airplanes, grunge, gourmet coffee, and e-commerce. In the style of Infinite City and Portlandness, this illustrated book examines an expansive range of topics from UFO sightings to pinball legacies, gray skies to frontier psychology, strong women and strong coffee. Compelling infographic visuals emerge from deep dives into data, unraveling over 50 real and strange narratives about the green metropolis perched at the edge of the Salish Sea"-- Leseprobe FOREWORD What’s your favorite thing to do when you visit a city for the first time? For me, it’s getting lost for a few hours. As in, well and truly lost. I head to a known landmark, then put away my phone, guidebooks, and whatever else I have that might want to tell me what I should do in this new place. And I wander. I do this because for me, getting lost in a new place for a little while is one of the most enjoyable ways to establish a personal connection to it. We all likely remember the first time we ventured far from home, but we almost certainly remember that moment, that journey, and that place for different reasons. Each of us establishes these personal connections a little differently. Maybe some of us found the landscape especially beautiful, while others were taken with the strange road signs helping us navigate that landscape. Maybe you thought the people were unusually friendly—or not friendly enough. Maybe the trees were greener than you ever thought possible. Whatever it was that first stuck out in your mind from that trip became the first pin in your mental map of that place, permanently fixing, in a highly personal way, your memory of what you saw or smelled or tasted or did in that space and time. I savor being in a place for the first time and, through wandering, identifying that very first pin. Eventually, I know, there will be many more as I start to build out a brand-new mental map. Sometimes when we’ve visited a place several times, or when we’ve settled in one spot, we forget to keep adding pins. The personal lens through which we view that area can become fixed. We get stuck in our routines. We start focusing more and more narrowly on what we know to be true about a place because we’ve seen it and slogged through it over and over again. But I think the magic of geography and the magic of mapping are that, with a little nudge, we can see everything afresh—and, even better, that everything is always fresh . Seattleness will nudge you in countless ways and challenge you to see the city and region through new, crisp, and yes, sometimes even warped lenses. Some of what is presented here may even find its way onto your own mental map of Seattle and its hinterlands. You will be introduced to a city of flannel, pinball wizards, extraordinary women, and rain, rain, rain (but not the world’s most rain, just really frequent rain). Through the maps, charts, diagrams, illustrations, and photography in this book, you will be tr...
