Sam Usle: “Slowly but surely we’re starting to recover the built environment.”

Urbanist and illustrator Sam Usle on designing human-scale communities and rendering them in watercolors, why theme parks reflect a yearning for human-scale towns, redesigning part of his high school campus before graduation, why you can thank Le Corbusier for hideous Revit-default cities, the axonometric map that sold Disneyland, storytelling with facades, the history of Rome’s urban fabric, why master planning begins with the negative space, and how “you'd be hard-pressed to find an ugly city before 1930.” See his work at studioredcar.com

• His maps of St. Patrick’s & St. Hedwig’s Parishes, Via Belisarius
• Ettore Mazzola
• Douglas Duany
• John Decuir
• James Rouse
• The Disneyland pitch map
• The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI run by cartographer Andrew Middleton

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