Learning a City through a Street

A city is a rather large and daunting thing to get to know in a week or two. Riding buses around can help cement the network of streets. Finding out what the sights to see are and visiting them in isolation can also create a sense of a place. (And, in a way, that’s how I know DC; islands of a mile or two around metro stations, but no firm sense of what happens in the city between these islands.) Something I’ve ended up doing almost entirely by accident to get to know the two cities I’ve been in so far is to explore the length of a street. Then that street can be understood as a representative subsection of the city as a whole.

Topiary Park

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Topiary Park looks like what would happen if Edward Scissorhands reinterpreted impressionist art, more specifically George-Pierre Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It was interesting to walk around a three-dimensional representation of something I’m so used … Continue reading →

Parks in Columbus

Apart from an awesome night out, which included a Meadery, $3 Long Islands at Union, and “hip hop” night at Wall Street, everything I’ve seen so far in Columbus has been a park of some kind. And some day very soon I hope to get to another one, The Topiary Park, which reconstructs this painting out of shrubbery, in the next few days.