Landscape+Urbanism

Category: dialogue

  • Got Something to Say?

     Landscape Urbanism is looking for essays, thoughts, ideas + innovative aproaches to landscape urbanism. We are looking for unique approaches to defining, understanding, communicating, and practicing landscape urbanism. Clarity of writing and communication are imperative. If you had to explain landscape architecture or landscape urbanism to the public, how would you describe it? Why does…

  • Some LU Definitions

    A great resource for those looking for clarification on some of the terminology around Landscape Urbanism on the New Urban News.  A number of key terms and concepts (as well as their originating authors) are included, including: “Analog Ecologies: Projects that attempt to model, analogously, the responsive behaviors of living systems in nonliving constructions or…

  • American Dream Survival Guide

    An interesting project by David (d.e.) Sellers, called ‘American Dream Survival Guide‘ offers a series of podcasts with a goal to “…spread information and propagate solutions and cooperation to tackle the challenges that face the U.S. in the 21st century”   The project is produced by Explore Lab Radio from the faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and…

  • Brief Thoughts on Binary Thinking

    The on-going debate on LU/NU is interesting less for any content (of which there has been little beyond posturing and uninformed rhetoric), and more than its continuation of a history of binary discussions between oppositional actors that has occurred in many arenas, including a long history within urbanism and design.  Lest we think there is…

  • Reading, Thinking, Observing: A New Direction for L+U

    Forgive my self-indulgent post, but my lack of blogging is not an indication of lack of thinking (and walking) – as my attention has shifted from following the various blogs (i used to follow many, and now have reduced this to around a dozen) and their myriad paths of discussion towards a more rigorous engagement…

  • Guest Post: The Human Benefits of Green Building

    by Krista  Peterson While it may initially seem like the only benefits of “green building” efforts go to the environment – at the cost of human comfort and expense – this is not the case. Proponents of eco-friendly architecture take a holistic approach to the concept of environmental health, including human well-being in their calculations.…

  • Walking the Turtle

    While familiar with the concept of the flâneur, the inquistive wanderer, or  “…detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a gentleman stroller of city streets”.  Reading After the City last night, Lars Lerup, in discussing the idea of the ‘speed’ of the modern metropolis, made a passing reference to a 19th century custom of using a…

  • The Urbanism Wars: AD v. CW

    Turns out you have to read and write a bit in doctoral studies – which sometimes cuts down on the time for blogging… who knew?  But glean and collect I still do, and lots of good reading since the last dispatch on the ongoing dispute/feud/discussion/turf-war on who controls urbanism – aka the LU/NU debates (which…

  • Reading the Landscape

    LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN ON‐LINE READING GROUP SEEKINGMEMBERS. LETTERS OF INTEREST DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1ST. READING THE LANDSCAPE is an on‐line reading group dedicated to fostering engaging dialogue about the shaping of our built environment. The inaugural group will begin reading The Landscape Urbanism Reader edit by Charles Waldheim the week of February 21st. The group will include…

  • Coyote Urban

    A few weeks back, on my way home I spotted in my neighborhood a lone coyote crossing busy 33rd Avenue just north of Fremont.  While urban coyotes are not necessarily that out of the ordinary (such as the adventurous multi-modal coyote that boarded MAX light rail a few years back) but the neighborhood I live…