Category: landscape urbanism
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DailyLand: The Park at Lakeshore East
Some recent stunning imagery from Arch Daily of The Park at Lakeshore East, a new park in Chicago designed by The Office of James Burnett: “…the central amenity of the 28-acre Lakeshore East development in Chicago’s Inner Loop… The landscape architect was engaged early in the project by the master plan architects and helped produce…
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Reading List: Drosscape
Early in the life of this (still youthful) blog, I had a short throwaway post about Modes of Representation – and echoed a term I had heard regarding ‘visual masturbation’ – the analogue of the pointless drivel associated with verbal masturbation. While there are still countless examples of both in the design and planning spheres…
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Stan Allen at the AALU
Stan Allen: Before and After Landscape Urbanism01/27/09 – Architectural Association Lecture :: Taipai Waterfront – images via Stan Allen View the lecture via live streaming available from 5.45pm at http://stream.aaschool.ac.uk/The emergence of landscape urbanism, along with the development of the protocols of digital design, must be counted one of the most significant developments in the…
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Academy of Urbanism
A quick post from Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today (look into the middle column ‘Medium Thoughts’ and scroll down to “The Deadening of Place…”) referencing the new manifesto of the Academy of Urbanism – which is more or less (according to TTT), is the UK equivalent to the Congress for New Urbanism. (insert groan here). This is…
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Corner Redux
It seems that James Corner is basking in the glow of design press recently… with another feature in New York Magazine that investigates (in depth) the evolution and potential of Fresh Kills Park. While I have yet to see the movie, Wall-E Park by Robert Sullivan alludes to the idealogy implicit in the movie and…
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Corner(ing) the Market
I’ve been sitting on this almost finished post for almost two weeks, patiently, then not so patiently waiting for Metropolis to get around to posting their November content online… mainly for this month’s great profile about James Corner, and some sweet new pics of the High Line and other work. Finally it’s here, and we…
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Pruning AAgrotecture
Most readers have no doubt seen Alexander Trevi’s great quartet of projects in an ongoing series on AAgrotecture over at Pruned. Part of a Vertical Studio from the Architecture Association (AA) in London taught by Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos – the purpose was to address a central question: “Can extremes of programmatic effectiveness…
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Ecotransitional Urbanism
This project came to Landscape+Urbanism via new LU graduate Jorge Ayala, from the AALU in London. It’s an interesting use of Landscape Urbanism principals in Chinese urban areas – balancing ecotourism with fragile natural systems in a rapidly growing region. [following images and text from Jorge – thanks!] ECOTRANSITIONAL URBANISM Pearl River Delta, ChinaJORGE AYALA…
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The Detroit Dilemma
As mentioned previously, I spent an intensive three-day long whirlwind charrette in Detroit, Michigan as part of on interdisciplinary team for the Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) program as part of the AIAs Communities by Design Program. This was my first SDAT experience, as well as my first visit to Detroit (short of passing through…
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Don’t Look Back…?
This was definitely an eye-catching title on the ASLA snippet blog The Dirt… ‘Don’t Look Back’, in response to a recent NY Times article that focused on a Alan Berger’s restoration efforts in Italian Pontine Marshes. In summary, this: “…proposal to basically invent a natural system to purify heavily polluted waters running into the Mediterranean…