Urban planning tattoos

[Dan]

My body has no ink on it, except for the pen I carry in my pocket. My lack of tats made me something of a freak when I was living in Austin.

I'm not thinking of getting a tattoo, but if I was forced to get one, it would be cool to have something with an urban theme. I'd mean towards the Ellicott Grid, the original spoke-and-radial plan for the City of Buffalo. It's home, it's a map, and it's urban.



If you got a tattoo with planning or the built environment as a theme, what would you get? Ever see any cool planning-related ink on anybody else in the field?

[JNA]

Why not the Cyburbiia graphic logo ?

[Dan]

Why not the Cyburbiia graphic logo ?

Street grids are harder to change than Web site logos, although Buffalo made some efforts in the 1970s to cut off the radials from the core of downtown.

[Maister]

I suppose it's pretty much obligatory for transportation planners to have a 'Highway to Hell' tat.

[Planit]

Street grids are harder to change than Web site logos, although Buffalo made some efforts in the 1970s to cut off the radials from the core of downtown.

Well over time you could keep expaqnding it like a growing city - a bodily DeNoc

[Rygor]

Perhaps the famous Daniel Burnham quote scrawled across your back.

"Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood."

Could work in the "happy trail" region as a nice little reminder for that special someone (or not so special as the case may be).

[Whose Yur Planner]

I am also one of uninked ones. My idea is a wavy bladed dagger stuck through a comp plan circled by Born to Plan

[ursus]

I would get either a section of the "Plat of Zion" or a compass rose.

Or, to be smarmy, Andres Duany's smirking face on my left shoulder.....maybe with devil horns?

[Fat Cat]

I have a globe, as part of some of my ink, does that count?

[otterpop]

Since I have a dandy scar right between my shoulder blades, maybe a tat that reads: "Insert knife here - Planning Board"

[Dan]

I would get either a section of the "Plat of Zion" or a compass rose.

Today I learned that there's something called "Mormon city planning". Seriously check out that page.

[Mud Princess]

Since I have a dandy scar right between my shoulder blades, maybe a tat that reads: "Insert knife here - Planning Board"

dandy gave you a scar?