Urban Planning
While my primary creative work is rooted in hand drawn pieces, I have produced a significant portfolio visualizing projects with the use of Photoshop. My profession entails me spending substantial parts of my day studying maps, zoning code and project financing mechanisms. Throughout my life, I have read and enjoyed maps and sought an ability to bend them to my will and vision. Through the use of Photoshop, I am able to help people utilize a tool so widely used such as Google Maps to envision a wildly different urban reality.
My photoshopped city designs are often of summertime aerials of areas decimated by the ills of post-war urban renewal. Barren wastelands of surface lots and highway interchanges come alive with mixed use buildings, restored street grids and evident streetscaped greenery. Militarized roads are narrowed, spaces are made for bikes and pedestrians and dramatic redevelopment projects, which may otherwise seem impossible come alive via these highly accessible and widely used tools. Imagine a world of verdant gardens, trees, affordable housing, ground floor retail and well-used multimodal transportation methods.