Author: Jason King
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A Potential Body of Landscape Urbanism – Part 1
My questions about identifying works of landscape urbanism has its first lead. A reader (and fellow former North Dakotan Brook Meier – an architect now practicing in India) offered some projects worthy of explanation. He used to work for the firm LA Dallman in Milwaukie, Wisconsin and mentioned the collective Crossroads project, which he succinctly summed up as…
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Call for Submissions: MONU 14: Editing Urbanism
This upcoming topic from MONU 14: Editing Urbanism is pretty compelling, and worthy of checking out, as it implies a new paradigm shift for urbanism as a generative process to one of ‘editing’ the urban realm. While not specifically referenced in the call for submissions (which is more architecturally oriented), this ‘urban editing’ is dovetailed into…
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New City Landscape Denver
From Urban Tick, an interesting graphic display of social media that creates a new ‘landscape’ of the City of Denver. Check out the site for more maps from around the world. (images are screenshots from the interactive map) Some info: “This New City Landscape represents location based twitter activity as the tweetography of the city.…
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Works of Landscape Urbanism?
A long-standing question that seems to have arisen in recent days due to discussions on Ecological Urbanism, coupled with a reconnection to the Landscape Urbanism bibliography. I’ve also recently rescued my book collection from storage – so have an opportunity to look specifically at some of the pertinent literature to glean what we could consider…
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Feral Green Streets (Tamed)
It was bound to happen, but a nice walk for some coffee showed the new ‘orderly frames’ for the previously unruly green street planters along Burnside Street. Some updated images displaying what is quickly becoming ‘stock’ in the local green street planting arsenal – (c) Jason King | Landscape+Urbanism. I’m really intrigued by the planters…
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NOW Urbanism
In the spirit of the variety of urbanism – some upcoming events from University of Washington in Seattle as part of the Now Urbanism: City Making in the 21st Century and Beyond – a year long interdisciplinary series of speakers around the concept of the modern city. Thanks to Thaisa Way from UW for the…
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More on Ecological Urbanism
A recent post regarding Ellen Dunham-Jones talk in Vancouver highlighted the stance of new urbanism not just on landscape urbanism but on ecological urbanism. Some notes via one of the attendees from – highlights a major disconnect between understanding and rhetoric – particularly that ecological urbanism is focused on some idea of ‘city in nature’ suburbia…
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New York City’s Amphibious Heritage
Via the always interesting Strange Maps, a utopian proposal from the early 20th Century for New York City with current parallels of either the practical Dutch examples of land reclamation or the ridiculous Dubai examples of artificial islands. Immediately making me think of Robert Grosvenor proposal for ‘Floating Manhattan’ – This 1911 proposal by Dr. T. Kennard Thompson entitled ‘A…
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Botanical Neurobiology
A TED Talk on Plant Intelligence by Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso will leave you on the edge of your seat and asking all sorts of questions of both your house-plants and about the wide-ranging implications for landscapes. Mancuso operates the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology in Italy. A brief synopsis of the talk: “Does the Boston…