Landscape+Urbanism

Category: conferences

  • The Red Brick Chronicles – ‘Advancement verus Apocalypse’ by Rem Koolhaas

    As I mentioned in the recent reckoning of the L+U blog, I wanted to focus on a number of recent texts that I’ve had the chance to delve into (by disconnecting myself from the nefarious teat of the RSS feeder)  Of significance is finally getting around to expanding on the initial readings of the book…

  • LU Conference in the Central States

    I just received this announcement of a conference sponsored by the ASLA Central States Chapter entitled “Landscape Urbanism: Economics of Healthy Communities” – (a remarkably odd title imho, but) including keynote speakers Andres Duany, John Crompton, and Brad McKee… topic session submittals are due tomorrow so late notice, but the conference itself is on May…

  • Upcoming Lecture on Detroit

    Detroit: the 21st Century Challenge – a test of equity, vitality, and sustainability THURSDAY DECEMBER 9TH, 5:30 TO 7 P.M. Please join us for a moderated discussion with Dr. Ellen Bassett of the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and a panel of speakers including Dr. Robin Boyle of Wayne State University in Detroit;…

  • Environmental Urbanism Panel Discussion

    As an addenda to the previous post, on Chris Reed’s lecture, a round-about summary of the panel discussion that followed. Panel Discussion – Environmental Urbanism:  Ecological Design for Healthy Cities The panel was moderated by Peter Steinbrueck, with Reed joined by additional panelists including Randy Hester (who lectured the previous evening on Design for Ecological Democracy) and…

  • Parsley On the Building

    A great overview on Urban Omnibus features some of the recent site specific events in the 50th Anniversary of the GSD celebrating the half century of urban design (which at least in a modern perspective evolved from Harvard and mid-twentieth century theorists).  While the author seems to incorrectly equate concepts ecological urbanism and landscape urbanism,…

  • Environmental Urbanism

    Excited to have a chance to head up to Seattle for tomorrow’s lecture as part of the NOW Urbanism series at University of Washington.  Look for a report of the festivities in coming days. November 18:  Environmental Urbanism: Ecological Design for Healthy Cities Kane Hall, Room 120 (University of Washington) What does it mean to…

  • 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…

  • Alan Berger on Landscape Waste

    Via World Landscape Architect a two-part video of Alan Berger: “CUSP Conference organisers recently posted a two part video of Alan Berger’s presentation at the 2009 CUSP Conference on Landscape Waste. An interesting look at landscapes waste resulting from industrial processes.” Check out part 2 here.

  • Branden Born on Urban Ag

    Cascadia Region Green Building Council:Transformational Lecture Featuring Branden Born Tuesday, June 155:30-7:00PMWhite Stag Building70 NW Couch Urban Food & Agriculture: Making the Jump in SustainabilityDr. Branden Born, Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington, will offer his thoughts on how we can make the connection between equity and sustainability in…

  • Ecological Urbanism: Introduction Part 2

    Continuing the investigations of the introduction to the book ‘Ecological Urbanism‘ (read Part 1 here) – we pick up on the concepts of ecological urbanism in the explosion of interest in urban and local food production. Near and dear to my interests, the ability to transform such shrinking cities like Detroit, emulating the lessons and…