Friday, January 9, 2015

accidental townscape--curved screen wall

st. josephs street, an example of a curved screen wall between yonge and bay streets.

standing at the corner of the sidewalk looking west the opposite end of st. joseph can not be seen, until walking out to cross the street.

in his book, the italian townscape, ivor dewolfe identifies this as one of the arrangements of buildings alongside a street as making a repleasing urban environment.