SKIP ALLUMS

This year, I decided to live up to an old resolution to start walking to work (thanks to the San Francisco Bay Area’s wonderful public transit system). During these walks, I am often reminded of a chapter from Peter Morville’s 2005 book, Ambient Findability, where he discusses the notion of navigating through a Built Environment. A city’s inhabitants tend to form an environmental image of their hometown using landmarks like paths, districts, nodes and landmarks to aide in wayfinding. Having lived in the Bay Area for only a short time, I have not completely gotten my bearings yet. Walking the sidewalks of the town you live in is a great way to enhance your relationship with it. You begin to map the city out in your mind according to the things you pass every day, and new facets of the city begin to jump out at you.

I recently snapped a few pictures during my daily commute. Enjoy!