Author: Jason King
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Earthships to El Monte Sagrado
Back in the summer of 2005, I had the opportunity to travel for a number of days throughout New Mexico on a dual vacation/educational endeavor (what isn’t educational,I ask?) Whilst digging through images to upload to Flickr, I found a hidden trove photos from that trip as well as some notes for an article I…
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Post-Successional Landscapes
This week came to a close with another Park(ing) Day, a phenomenon created by San Fran group REBAR a few years back. It was evidently a success around the world via blog posts, and from the few examples I saw around Portland, it was evident that there was a lot of interest and support… It’s…
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Veg.itecture #39
Time again for another round of Vegetated Architecture… and in my opinion, the world continues to embrace and expand the potential for veg.itecture in many forms. From the imminent release of Patrick Blanc’s The Vertical Garden (read my review here), to the prevalence of exciting projects, the concept is a movement… at least one with…
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Go Swift-ly into that Goodnight
A local Portland phenomenon that seems to grow exponentially each year is the pilgrimmage to Chapman Elementary School to witness the bedding down of the Swifts… and if it sounds dull, you will be sadly mistaken. A week ago, a small group met up for a birthday pre-celebration, including the finest in boxed wine and…
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Bag-riculture Urban Style
Pardon the bad pun, but a bunch of posts that deal with urban agriculture using a variety of containers motivated me to post on the selection and phenomenon. Gardens are one of those things that require some sort of container in which to hold soils, plants, and allow for growth. Typically this container is our…
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What are they trying to catch?
Sorting through some archived posts, I thought this was somehow more funny than stunning… Via BDonline: “This sculpture, named Temenos, will be the first of five giant sculptures to be erected in the Tees Valley at a total cost of £15 million. At nearly 50m tall, it will be three times the height of the…
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Incenting Ecoroofs in Portland
Some previous posts Sustainable Stormwater and Grey to Green alluded to a large push for incentives to promote stormwater management projects in the City of Portland. For ecoroofs, the City is putting up the money to back up the talk, with a recent announcement.:: image via Bureau of Environmental Services Read the text below… excerpted…
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Habitat Heresy?
When I first heard the grumbling around Colwood National Golf Course being rezoned as industrial space from it’s current state as an ailing golf course I had the same reaction as others: Do we really want more displacement of open space into industrial lands, especially in NE Portland, which has a legacy of industrial lands…
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Reading List: The Vertical Garden
The time has come. The fine folks at publisher WW Norton were nice enough to send me a review copy of The Vertical Garden: From Nature to The City, by Patrick Blanc about a month ago, and I’ve finally finished it off – at least for the most part. Suffice it to say – and…
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Salmon-Safe SoWa
I’ve riffed a bit on SoWa previously on Landscape+Urbanism as filled with potential but needing some time… A recent report by Dyland Rivera from the Oregonian and picked up on Jetson Green as well, that the 35-acre area in the South Waterfront area in Portland has acheived Salmon Safe Certification, the first urban neighborhood to…