Landscape+Urbanism

Category: dialogue

  • Pruitt Igoe Now

    Another good ideas competition, Pruitt Igoe Now the infamous St. Louis housing complex that was demolished in 1972 and considered one of the touchstones in the ‘death’ of modernism.  The site is typical of the towers in the park ideal most notably ascribed to public housing and derived from version of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City…

  • Introducing Landscape+Urbanism V2.0

    Some significant life and professional changes in the past year has moved me away from the day to day updates to blog.  The outlet for me has always been personal, the breadth of content has been somewhat vast, owing to my generalist tendencies.  This suited me well and I spent a good amount of time…

  • Waldheim – LU Video

    Say what you will about this crazy debate, I finally took an hour to watch this, and its a pretty interesting introduction to landscape urbanism.  Looking forward to seeing the CNU presentation and discussion – anyone know if that’s going to be posted? 2010 – Charles Waldheim from College of Arts & Architecture on Vimeo.

  • 1 million visitors

    My blogging has tapered off recently due to going to school and running my business – but it’s still exciting to see the overall number of visitors going over 1 million, which is a wonderful landmark for the site.  I’m definitely always looking to adapt and adjust the site for maximizing my understanding of landscape…

  • 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…

  • RBC: Mumbai on My Mind | Bhabha

    Mumbai on My Mind: Some Thoughts on Sustainability   |  Homi Bhabha :: Mumbai Slum – image via Lost & Found “It is always too early, or too late, to talk of the ‘cities of the future.’ (78) Bhabha uses this essay to frame the idea of sustainability and innovation, mentioning that “Any claim to newness,…

  • Kunstler on Landscape Urbanism

    James Howard Kunstler joins the LU/NU ‘debate’ with a completely Kunstlerian commentary with some rhertorical tidbids like LU displaying “a complete lack of interest in the basic components of urban design”… “incorporates lots of high tech ‘magic’ infrastructure for directing water flows and requires massive, costly, complex site interventions” and is “…against density and vehemently…

  • Reading the Landscape: A Reference Manifesto

    As mentioned previously we are fully engaged in a group reading of the Landscape Urbanism Reader, edited by Charles Waldheim, and as promised, are providing some brief synopses of what transpired in the previous weeks dialogue are regular intervals.  Our first week was a soft launch, allowing folks to introduce themselves to the group, and…

  • Ecologies of Gold

    Brilliant study of the meshing of urbanization and gold mining in Johannesburg, South Africa by Dorothy Tang and Andrew Watkins (on Design Observer).  As mentioned in the article and accompanying photo essay;  “ In particular, the 80-kilometer mining belt between the two cities is riddled by deep-shaft mines, where companies built an extensive network of…

  • 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…