Category: density
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RBC: Notes on the Third Ecology | Kwinter
Notes on the Third Ecology | Sanford Kwinter Kwinter used the dichotomy of city/nature, rooting in our historic perceptions that evolved in the Industrial era. As mentioned, this concept is characterized by a time “…when immense upheavals in social, economic, and political life transformed the very landscape around us and our relationship to it irreversibly…
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RBC: Urban Earth: Mumbai
Urban Earth: Mumbai | Raven-Elison & Askins Urban Earth, with studies in Mumbai, Mexico City, and London: Their approach: “walking across some of Earth’s biggest urban areas, to explore their spatial realities for the people who live there and challenge dominant media discourses regarding the places in which most of us now live. The idea…
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The Deconstructed City
Amazing new maps from an L+U favorite, Strange Maps, featuring ‘A Taxonomy of City Maps: “Imagined cities built from the fragments of real ones: something similar is happening in Tout bien rangé, a cartography-based artwork by French artist Armelle Caron. It consists of a series of map pairs, one a blind, but recognisably real city…
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Smart Growth
One of the recent awards from the EPA for the 2010 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement went to Portland Metro region for it’s 2040 Growth Concept. Policies, Programs, and Regulations: 2040 Growth Concept, Portland metro, OregonEPA says: Metro, the elected regional government of the Portland, Oregon, area, is making sure that future population growth can be…
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Alien Urbanism
De-Urbanization as Defense Against Alien Invasion The previews for the new Rogue movie ‘Skyline‘ made me think of a possible benefit from the general dispersion of urban populations. As shown in the film, the prototypical invasion is preceded by.the traditional ‘parking’ of ships above all of the ‘worlds cities’ that has been echoed in sci-fi…
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On Agrarian Urbanism
An opportunity for point-counterpoint on the topic of Agrarian Urbanism – one that, with the recent explosion of discussion and interest in urban agriculture – is vital to discussing the place of food in the city, and what impact this will have on the form and function of our urban agglomerations. The topic is poignant…
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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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Density of the Dead
A little cross-post from the Veg.itecture blog, where the concept of a vertical cemetery in Mumbai ‘Vegitecturally Vertical Cemetery‘ was presented as a way to satisfy cultural expectations while efficiently utilizing scarce urban land. As we’ve become less likely to cross program or use cemeteries as quasi-public parks and open space – these areas (while…