International District update

Yo Cascade neighborhood investigators. Our class has been scouting out the International District for the past two Fridays. We visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum www.wingluke.org, peeked into the lobby of the Bush Hotel (which is now an apartment building run by the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority, http://www.scidpda.org/), looked at 1940s items from the old Higo Variety store (now a cool artisan gallery called Kobo, http://koboseattle.com/flash.html, which you might know from their Capitol Hill gallery next to Joe Bar), um, what else? Oh yeah, we climbed up the hill through the Danny Woo Community Gardens, where we paused among some rotting vegetables and wall inscriptions in several different Asian languages, to Kobe Terrace Park, http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/kobeterrace.htm, which offers a great view of the neighborhood--and of I-5.

For details about what else we found--what we did later--how to time a pot of tea--and what students in Urban Adaptations are doing with these observations, you'll have to ask them...

xoxo
Gabrielle