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 Waveland, Mississippi, 8 AM, August 29, 2006 This is one of several virtual homes of an itinerant photographer, writer, and urbanist. Here you will find pictures of open country, rural houses, urban neighborhoods, and Main Streets. After Hurricane Katrina, my photography teaching career shifted to urban planning, as I participated in numerous planning charrettes for the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, 2005-2007. Now I'm training towns and cities how to reform their sprawl-producing zoning codes, and leading workshops about the local character of place. It made sense that I took that path. Over my first fifty years, I watched the disappearance of traditional towns, architectural beauty, and open lands from America. It is the Long Hurricane of sprawl. My concern about this led me to the New Urbanism planning movement, which protects and creates good places all along the rural-to-urban transect. Now I'm using photography to report, analyze, and rebuild.
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Links to Sandy’s books: contact: sandysorlien@comcast.net Center for Applied Transect Studies Sandy’s Blog: Sandy’s Business: All photographs |