Picture Show: Crowdsourcing the World's Greatest Imaginary Neighborhood

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April 21, 2010 • 6:00 am PDT
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Imagining the ideal street

What if all your favorite places from around the world—that taco stand on the Mexican border, that hat store in London, that gallery in New York—were lined up on the same block? We wondered what it might look like, so we asked the folks over at Pictory, a publication that tells stories through community-sourced photos, if they could solicit images on the theme of “Neighborhood Treasure.” We’ve mixed in a few of our own snapshots, and created what we imagine the world’s greatest street might look like.

Top photo by Wade Griffith.

By Andy Schwegler

By Michel Feist

By Robert Otani

By Aimee Wenske

By Toby Porter

By Laura Saenz

By Laura Brunow Miller

By Julyo Romero

By Ashleigh Cole

This article first appeared in GOOD Issue 19: The Neighborhoods Issue. You can read more from the issue here, or find out what it's all about by reading the introduction.

Posted in: Cities,; Picture Show,; The Neighborhoods Issue,; Issue 019,; News,; Culture,

Tags: culture,; art,; photography,; cities,; neighborhoods

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