Category: landscape urbanism
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DailyLand: Taekwondo Park
I’m going to reimplement, now that there’s some space with the Veg.itectural sidebar, the idea of DailyLand… as it’s something that I think has been lacking in the L+U content. These will be simple posts on an almost daily basis with a link to more information from outside and a couple of pics. The aim…
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Alt/Urbs
A kind commenter directed me to the site Alt/Urbs. An online journal billed as ‘an electronic potlatch’, the site is open for submissions of unpublished work related to ‘alternative urbanization, design, and radical urban geography’. It’s an interesting usage of the term ‘potlach‘ to describe the process – but overall the idea is good… and…
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Illustrating the Urban Condition
From a representational point-of-view, it is interesting to see some of the ways in which representation plays a vital role in communication. I’ll inevitably revisit this some more, as it’s a topic worth exploring, but these examples span the photographic to the planimetric, while encapsulating a wide range of messages. To begin, it’s always interesting…
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Ecological Urbanism – Podcasting Now
I was really excited to see that the Podcasts of the Ecological Urbanism conference at the GSD (from early April) are now available… for those of us unable to make the trek to check it out live. While a 100×200 pixel image isn’t the same as a conference, I hope this trend continues with other…
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Reading List: CPULs
This is one of those densely packed and overpriced small volumes that make you think twice a few times in the bookstore – until you get your hands on it and unlock some of the potential of Andre Viljoen‘s thoughts on Continous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. :: image via Transition…
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Freshkills Park Blog
A recent discovery via blog linking, the Freshkills Park Blog, offers some insight into the workings of the major large-scale and long-term landscape urbanist project of North America. “Freshkills Park Blog is compiled by members of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation team working to develop Freshkills Park. Blog entries represent the…
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The 21st Century Park & The Contemporary City
Via ASLA’s blog The Dirt, an announcement of an upcoming event that resonates with recent resurgence in thinking and discussion about the role of large civic parks. Happening in New York City and sponsored by The Forum For Urban Design some info from the Forum’s website: “In the past few years, there has been huge…
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Reading List: The Infrastructural City
The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angelesedited by Kazys Varnelis (Actar – 2008) :: image via NetLab If not for the impeccable timing of the release of this book, and the fact that the content within has inevitably been in progress for some time – I would say that ‘The Infrastructural City’ was a…
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Of Uncertainty in Urban Planning
I’ve been carrying around this pamphlet since a lecture by Thomas Sieverts at the University of Oregon last fall. Last night after dumping my bag of it’s acquired detritus, I had a chance to re-read this short essay entitled ‘Of Uncertainty in Urban Planning’, which furthers the dialogue in Sieverts work related to: “…the Zwischenstadt,…
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Ecological Urbanism at the GSD
An upcoming must-see conference entitled Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future will take place at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on April 3-5, 2009. The event will “…bring together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, environmental scientists, politicians and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding…