Author: Jason King
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Integrating Habitats: A Competition
Phew. So i seem to have forgotten the toll on everything that occurs when one agrees to enter and invest in a competition, specifically those done on one’s own time. The Integrating Habitats Competition I was working on finished on Monday – thus the long delay in posts. See a small version of our entry…
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For the Love of Trees
A number of articles in the past few days about the purposeful and sometimes not-so-purposeful changes we are making to our lovely local flora. The first article, from the Seattle Times – Nov. 27: “Trees giving bizarre clues to climate change” talks about trees as an early warning system to climate change by providing indicators…
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Very Urban Agriculture
An interesting story – Going Agro, from BLDGBLOG via Dwell… Overall, it is regarding the meshing of agriculture and building – definitely a blending of landscape and architecture in inventive ways. (photo from BLDGBLOG – via Knafo Kilmor Architects – see their site for more info)This concept brings up some interesting future scenarios of the…
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Modes of Representation
Back to Integrating Habitats… and the need for graphic representation techniques that are up to the challenges of representing time-based processes in viable ways. There are two polar opposites on the continuum – one is traditional graphic representation techniques, involving the ubiquitous rendered site plan, sketches, and such. The other is the deconstructed graphic that…
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Reading List: The World Without Us
I recently finished ‘The World Without Us’ by Alan Weisman. While not exactly what i imagined when i started reading, it definitely was captivating enough in terms of a compelling future vision of life. The nutshell is that life is for some unforeseen reason, mysteriously vanished from the earth. Or i should say, human life,…
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Cradle to Cradle Development
The Greenbridge Development in Chapel Hill, North Carolina is on the docket for Christmas vacation, is of course, a trip to see the first Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) development in the US, created by William McDonough. The website is vague on how this meetings C2C goals, but does give some indication of the overall project goals, which…
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Reading List: Center 14, On Landscape Urbanism
I just received this copy of Center 14: On Landscape Urbanism, and have yet to delve into it in great depth due to the current Integrating Habitats Competition that i’ve been working on. :: Link to Center 14 via Amazon The interesting fact of the book is its scope, ranging from some of the initial…
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Seeds
This is set up to be my clearinghouse of musings on Landscape Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, and Planning, Design and related subjects. I’m not really planning on this for public consumption, rather an electronic journal of things that interest me, a chance to write more often, and an outlet for thoughts. But if perchance someone happens…