Learning from the Urbanism of Experience

Chuck Wolfe
7 min readSep 3, 2020

For many years, I’ve stressed the importance of the urbanism of experience, finding layered examples that show how people relate to the built and sociocultural communities around them. This exercise is not merely academic, but is also useful as a supplement to today’s urbanist dialogue and placemaking efforts. In Novenber, 2018, prior to the re-release of Urbanism Without Effort, I reissued some relevant examples.

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Chuck Wolfe

Charles R. Wolfe founded the Seeing Better Cities Group in Seattle and London to improve the conversation around how cities grow and evolve across the world.