Landscape+Urbanism

Category: dialogue

  • Going viral: Blurred Borders

    I’m pleased to announce that Landscape+Urbanism will be featured along with some great company as part of the Voices Going Viral Exhibition and event developed by AIANY.   More information below. The AIANY Global Dialogues committee has dedicated 2012 to “uncovered connections” with the intention to investigate issues that are similarly impacting multiple regions, cultures…

  • Got History?

    Hawthorne & 50th (1936) Aerial View of Portland (1936) My fascination with history and place is no secret.  While i am intrigued with urban history in many forms, there’s always a desire for a connection with the place you inhabit.  Typically this fascination comes via maps, which have been well documented, but the timeline of…

  • Essay in ‘Atlantis’ Magazine

    I am happy to report that a recent essay was published in ‘Atlantis’ Magazine, which is published by Polis and collects writings that make “…the link between students, academics and professionals besides the Polis activities. This magazine is our medium to keep you as member up to date about everything going on in the urbanism…

  • Kerb 20 Seeking Submissions

    Kerb is one of best journals out there for landscape architecture – and you can be part of their next issue around the topic ‘speculative narrative’.  Here’s the call for submissions: KERB 20 IS SEEKING SUBMISSIONS OF ESSAYS/PROJECTS/ ARTWORKS/ STORIES ETC Speculative narrative and the potential of imagination are important factors in creative production. It is…

  • Waterscape Urbanism

    I was struck by a recent mis-use of the term landscape urbanism in this article from the Atlanta Journal Constitution on the need for climate change inspired floating homes.  Quoting  Thai landscape architect Danai Thaitakoo on the need for dealing with innundation. “Climate change will require a radical shift within design practice from the solid-state…

  • Guest Post: The Other Plane

    The Porter House project by SHoP Architects doesn’t quite sit right with the eye. Greg Pasquarelli, one of the founding principals of the New York firm, gave a great lecture at the University of Washington last year in which he elaborated on the achievement of finding an innovative solution to the challenge of expanding the…

  • Building a Bike Highway

    The video of the presentation for GOOD Ideas for Cities is up, along with a nice write-up from organizer Alissa Walker from GOOD – so enjoy. Also check out some more detail, and download a PDF of the presentation over at the THINK.urban site.

  • GOOD Times in Portland

    The recent event for GOOD Ideas for Cities happened last week in Portland, and generated some great dialogue.  I was also on one of the teams that presented.  A short recap. :: custom notebooks by Scout Books  “Each team was issued a challenge proposed by a local urban leader. At the event, the creative teams…

  • Shrinking Cities: Detroit’s Agony (1990)

    A clip that spawned a lot of conversation within our reading group, from 1990, Diane Sawyer reporting on ABCs Primetime Live, in a series called ‘Detroit’s Agony’ – which looks at Mayor Coleman Young’s legacy, and plays on Detroit as ‘the first urban domino to fall…’ [More after the video] The shock of ‘Devils Night’,…

  • Shrinking Cities: Sugrue Part I: Arsenal

    Arsenal Moving along with the Shrinking Cities readings, the first part of ‘Origins of the Urban Crisis’ by Segrue recounts the development of the City of Detroit around WWII as the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ which made it one of the highest paying blue-collar cities in the US.  In the words of Segrue, “Mid-twentieth-century Detroit embodied…