Landscape+Urbanism

Category: ecological urbanism

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • RBC: Zeekracht (OMA)

    Zeekracht | OMA A related follow-up to the essay by Koolhaas, this short essay explores Zeekracht, a master plan for the North Sea, driven by it’s “high wind and consistent wind speeds and shallow waters…” making it “…arguably the world’s most suitable area for large-scale wind farming.”  The project master plan (below) outlines the strategy. …

  • The Red Brick Chronicles – ‘Advancement verus Apocalypse’ by Rem Koolhaas

    As I mentioned in the recent reckoning of the L+U blog, I wanted to focus on a number of recent texts that I’ve had the chance to delve into (by disconnecting myself from the nefarious teat of the RSS feeder)  Of significance is finally getting around to expanding on the initial readings of the book…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • More Hidden Rivers – NYC

    An interesting post from Urban Omnibus from earlier in January entitled ‘Grey vs. Green: Daylighting the Saw Mill River‘ is less intriguing in design concept that in larger idea of envisioning the expression of the variety of waterways that are hidden/buried/forgotten within our urban areas.  As referenced by Eric Sanderson through  his work on the…

  • City Concealed: Staten Island

    I previously featured a video from the online video series “The City Concealed” produced by Thirteen, a project of New York station WNET.  The series offers glimpses into some of the terrain vague of the metropolis by: “…exploring the unseen corners of New York. Visit the places you don’t know exist, locations you can’t get…