Looking Up
- On the roof of the building at the corner of Rdak and ben Maimon -- the one with the computer store and grocery on the ground floor -- trees and shrubs grow in what must be quite a garden. Farther down Radak are smaller plantings on balconies.
- Keep looking up and you see well-crafted ironwork and interesting sonework over windows.
- Here in Rehavia, and in other parts of the city where buildings date from the 1930s and slightly earlier, looking up also takes your eyes to added storeys, some in the style of the building below and others like new buildings built above old.
- Either way, the increase in population density intensified the neighborhood's flavors.
- See also http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-jerusalem-neighborhood.html
Copyright 2007 Jane S. Fox
Labels: Rehavia
posted by Jane S.Fox at 9:05 PM
1 Comments:
"Looking up" is valuable advice, but I haven't heard the expression used this way in decades. I learned to "look up" on a walking tour of New Orleans 30 years ago. I have since suggested to people visiting a famous or not so famous old city anywhere in the world that they remember to "look up" past the dirty pavements, overloaded trash bins, and flyspecked shop windows of ordinary neighborhoods. By looking up, visitors can spot the architectural details that once defined the place, while gaining a more accurate idea of what the city looked like "back then."
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