In Chuck Wolfe's absorbing new book, Seeing the Better City, he encourages readers to think with our eyes and communicate with visual imagery in order to improve our cities. While waiting for my review copy of Seeing the Better City, two potential antecedents already on my bookshelves came to mind: The first was Frederick Franck's short 1970s classic, The Zen of Seeing. And it has something important in common with Seeing the Better City, which is its instruction that seeing - really seeing - asks us to pay attention to our surroundings, to be mindful. And that kind of advocacy is the ultimate aim of Seeing the Better City. But I think Wolfe's ideas, as articulated in Seeing the Better City, could help get the process started.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2017 12:42 UTC