Category: infrastructure
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Big Box Surplus Space
One of the major ‘big ideas’ of our Integrating Habitats competition, or the idea of reinventing suburbia in general, is the reduced parking need over time – and what to do with the leftover paved areas. An article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows this idea isn’t merely peak oil induced futurism, but a more current…
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Sustainable Sites – Update
From some sneak peeks of the latest update to the Sustainable Sites Initiative (more from L+U here), I was both excited about the next iteration and establishment of more rigorous set of criteria, and a bit curious how it was going to maintain some of the necessary distance, inclusivity and poetry that is lacking in…
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Large Parks
In the spirit of one of the finest collections of writing on parks (and landscape urbanism) ‘Large Parks’ (edited by Czerniak & Hargreaves) a recent post on The Infrastructurist catalogs 10 of the world’s greatest large parks. “We thought it would be fun to take ten of the world’s largest, most famous, and most beautiful…
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Urban Urinals
Well in defense of the scatological, peeing in urban areas (or other specific displays of a variety of bodily functions) is something of a way of life (often in the doorway of our downtown office). Portland has become another in a line of cities experimenting with public toilets in the inner city for use by…
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Urban Ag-gregations
Nothing is more hot this year than the idea of urban agriculture in it’s many forms. Perhaps due to the economic downturn or maybe just a natural extension of our new found urban ecologic sensibility that includes urban agriculture at the highest levels – there is not shortage of the wonderful and the questionable in…
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Reading List: Learning from Las Vegas
:: Logorama by H5 – image via Designboom :: (color plate from the book) It is one of those books that everyone should read at some point, so I finally got around to sitting down and busting through the entirety of my copy of Learning from Las Vegas by Venturi, Scott-Brown and Izenour. Strangely enough,…
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Detroit Vacancy
Another interesting visual on Detroit – this time from the The Detroit News – on the preponderance of vacancies in the CBD: “While there is no official ledger of empty buildings, The Detroit News identified 48 major structures with no outward signs of life in the Central Business District, which covers about 127 blocks. Others…
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Linx: 08.05.09
L+U LinkFest: 08.09.09A collection of links from the past two weeks. See the entire list via delicious > landscapeurbanism :: Crisis Modes – image via ArchidoseLandscape+Urbanism: A Daily Dose of Architecture: Crisis Modes Art for Urban Planners – Part One | Planetizen Maps are all around us Franklin & Marshall – Public Parks and the…
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Landscape Architects = Green
Originally published in Engineering News-Record, and now posted in Architectural Record, the big news of the day is “Landscape Architects Play Central Role in Green Design.” Wow, that’s some real journalism 🙂 But kidding aside, it’s great to see the profession getting some much deserved accolades in the realm of sustainability – which has been…
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Hoax of the Week
:: image via curbed This one was pretty good and definitely had a bunch of folks going (via urbanism.org > via curbed)… The concept: “Bulldoze under Central Park and replace it with a modern, international airport. The idea is so simple, so beautifully elegant, so inevitable that it’s hard to believe we didn’t think of…