Category: habitat
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Flower: Gaming Urban Flight
A link from the ASLA blog The Dirt offered word of a landscape-oriented game from Playstation 3 entitled ‘Flower’. The gist: “Sony will soon release a new game “Flower,” which explores the path of an urban flower that seeks to escape to the countryside. Sony’s designer says the game is an interactive poem, which uses…
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Questioning EcoMetropolitanism
Perhaps I missed the memo regarding a new found integration of ‘wildness’ into our cities as the 2009 topic to watch. Maybe it started with Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estates – jumping to Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and the idea of City Zoo, shifting to the more expansive concept from _urb about Post Humanist Rewilded Eco Ethical…
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Veg.itecture #49: VIVA + VIA
As promised, a slight modification of the Veg.itecture posts – due both to the enormous amounts of projects out there, but also based on a need for some different needs for both built and design projects. So, as promised – in the upcoming 50th post on the series on Vegetated Architecture, an evolution of sorts…
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A Dozen of the Best of 2008
Well, in the spirit of the impending new year, it’s time for a look back on the 300+ posts from Landscape+Urbanism to glean what was new, provocative, innovative, and just plain awe-inspiring. In my biased opinion, reading through the archives and downloads from the year – is that 2008 was definitely the year of Veg.itecture…
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Again, Time to Get High
I’ll try to keep my fawning at bay as I post some new info from the High Line (although my obsession is well known)… but sometimes I just can’t resist. I recently plugged through some of the recent High Line Blog posts, and particularly appreciate the short lived ‘What will grow here?’ – which aimed…
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Veg.itecture #47
As we delve into this installment of Veg.itecture – it dawns on me that the current format of this feature may be ringing a little hollow and venturing into cliche after a year or so of it’s existence. It is definitely a valuable viewpoint to push forward these projects and visions, and I’ve definitely tried…
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PHRWEE Urbanism
Coming from a childhood of tiptoeing through Air Force Bases around the world, I’m actually a big fan of random and overwrought acronyms (which I believe may have switched in my adult years to a new found love of clever portmanteau). In this regard, I am impressed with urb – and the fantastic and thought-provoking…
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Parasitic Architectures
A new blog that I stumbled upon is Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, which is geared towards ‘Exploring the Consequences of Fantastic, Perverse, and Underrated Urbanisms” – which at least gets a nod for original mission statement. After some headaches related to the 3 narrow-column format – I did find a number of interesting posts. One that…