Category: landscape urbanism
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Garden City Detroit
A great dialogue that happened a few weeks back over at Kaid Benfield’s blog at NRDC (read it, the links, and the comments… good stuff) – about the fate and potential for Detroit. Seems that without reading the report – there’s a lot of knee-jerk reaction to what has been percieved as ‘bulldozing and planting…
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Bat Yam 2010
I posted here about the 2008 Bat-Yam international biennale of landscape urbanism, and was pleased to get an email annoucing the upcoming 2010 version focusing on Urban Action. The Bat-Yam Biennale functions as a laboratory through which attitudes in and towards urban space are examined. A variety of sites throughout the historic city of Bat-Yam…
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Interim Vacancy
Ever have one of those moments when you read, virtually word-for-word and idea-for-idea about an urban issue that you’ve been mulling and kicking around in your brain for some time. The idea of vacant land is predominant everywhere in varying levels, but offers potential for future development as well as valuable real estate that often…
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Some SDATisfaction
‘A Leaner, Greener Detroit: A Report by the American Institute of Architects Sustainable Design Assessment Team‘ is (finally) available for download. As one of the contributors, it is great to finally see it in living color. Find the link to the final report here… I will be posting on this after I’ve had a chance…
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Growing the Shrinking City
Following up on the proposed plans for the ‘shrinking’ city of Detroit, I was excited to see this link from City Farmer News announcing plans for Hantz Farms, set to be the ‘World’s Largest Urban Farm’ using a patchwork of vacant lands on the lower east side. John Hantz, CEO of Hantz Farms explains: “Detroit…
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World Map of Shrinking Cities
Showing that the idea of shrinking cities is not a localized, unique, or recent phenonomenon, a great video spotted via synchronicity from shrinking cities. World Map of Shrinking Cities from 1kilo on Vimeo.
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The Incredible Shrinking City
In response to a recent post on Detroit, David Jurca from the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) directed me to the very cool Shrinking Cities Institute at Kent State University which “…seeks to examine more sustainable approaches to development and explore the idea of planned shrinkage as an alternative to the quest for continuous growth.”…
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Detroit: Urbanist Opportunity
An interesting post via the Sustainable Cities Collective from Kaid Benfield asks the provocative question “Is Detroit (the city) a lost cause environmentally? Altogether?” and again makes me wonder why it is that Detroit seems to always get framed in thoughts of negativity, versus thinking of it as a potential opportunity to redefine the way…
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DailyLand: Flowing Garden
Flowing Garden: Xi’an World Horticultural ExpoPlasma Studio> more at Arch Daily, Bustler, SpaceInvading, Inhabitat :: images via Arch Daily Some description: “Although the buildings are experienced as individual elements, they are connected through the relationship they each have with the landscape. The buildings are specifically situated into the site at certain points to illustrate specific…
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Freshkills Park Video
An email from Bijan Rezvani from thirteen/wnet in NYC offers a short video as part of ‘The City Concealed’ series. The installment of Freshkills Park Project – outlining the innovative work of Field Operations and team in transforming the former world’s largest landfill into this long-term process to create an amazing large park. The City…