Landscape+Urbanism

Category: dialogue

  • ‘A Landscape Manifesto’

    Always a big fan of manifestos – the recent release of Diana Balmori & Michael Conan’s ‘A Landscape Manifesto‘ aims to be an interesting read (I have a copy en route, so stay tuned for a more expansive review). :: image via Amazon Some info on the book, from the Manifesto Website. “A Landscape Manifesto’…

  • Second-Rate Urbanism

    Reading through some old articles, I just had to post this quote from Duany – published in the Atlantic – you know the one with the great title ‘The Man Who Reinvented the City’… 🙂  Asked about a May report from the Brookings Institution on The State of Metropolitan America (also check out the interactive map…

  • More on the Urbanism Wars

    GSD as Epicenter The escalation of voices in the (let’s call it debate for lack of a better term) about some of the urbanisms out there – most notably New Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism, has kicked up a notch even in the past few weeks since the initial salvos. There has been a fair amount…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…