Back in Boston and in the middle of the first week of classes. Sorry for the dearth of posts recently, but I am getting back into the swing of things and will try to pick it up.

While school takes away a lot of my free time, it does provide a never ending list of things to blog about. For instance, one of my professors reminded me of the work done by Alex Maclean. Alex is a trained architect that paid his way through school by getting his pilot’s license and taking aerial pictures. Ultimately this became his career and he has a special eye for capturing the American landscape from the air.

Check out some of his amazing work at his website: http://www.alexmaclean.com

Also, he has started an archive of images more related to planning and urban design at: http://landslides.com/

I am headed to Bratislava, Slovakia to work on a planning and design project with a team of students and professors from MIT. We will be spending the next seven days doing site visits and due diligence before returning to Boston where we will spend the next semester designing a health spa resort.

Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to post pictures while I am there, but the post may be a little hit and miss for the next week. Either way I will let you know how it goes and keep you updated as we progress throughout the semester.

Or, a more vertical version…

Only goes to show you, you can’t talk about development in this city without talking about parking!

-b