Category: landscape urbanism
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Dos Años
Just a quick not to say thanks to everyone who has followed, commented, supported, linked and read the blog over the past two years. With an unofficial million + pageviews and another almost half-million visits, the experience has far exceeded my expectations (which frankly were minimal).:: image via business card tips As usual, the page…
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WPA 2.0 Winners
[post corrected on 12.13.09] I have been remiss in posting about the WPA 2.0 competition beyond this initial post way back when… it’s been exciting to see both the professional and student awards coming together into a fabulous compilation on information on the reinvention of public infrastructure. So alas, it was time to capture at…
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Size Does Matter, or Not
An interesting article in Planetizen called “Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland” investigates one of the unique, frustrating and beloved quirks of Portland. This is, our slicework of 200 foot square blocks… making for a lot of roads, and development of tiny blocks. It’s our burden to bear. The article is a fascinating ride…
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You Can Go Home Again
Well not exactly home, but a wonderful trip last week, back to my alma mater North Dakota State University for a presentation on my favorite topics – Landscape + Urbanism + Veg.itecture. Thanks to everyone that attended the lecture and for the great conversation before, during, and after. Fargo has changed a lot, but remarkably…
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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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Future Pastoral
Beautiful images via BLDGBLOG from some work by Nathan Freise that remind me of the wonderful techno-aesthetic urban imagery of LTL and Lebbeus Woods, with a bit of Andrew Wyeth thrown in for good measure. Amazing stuff. :: image via BLDGBLOGSome info: “Freise’s series of inkjet prints depict experimental architecture projects. His hybrid illustrations combine…
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Urbanism for Expanding Cities
My friend and colleague Brett Milligan and I were fortunate enough to have an article published in ‘Landscape Architecture China’ a new journal that recently published its second issue covering Landscape Urbanism. Our article titled ‘Urbanism for Expanding Cities: Designing the conjugal interface of contrasting systems’ outlined the urban frameworks that were key to our…
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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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More from the Ecotone
I am a fan of the conceptual parti of the ‘ecotone’ as seen from the Integrating Habitats competition award winner ‘Urban Ecotones’ from 2008. The use of this landscape ecology principle, which is defined as a transitional zone between distinct plant communities, offers a lot of mileage as an evocative strategy within it’s original sphere…
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Design Observer + Places
A heads up from @Space2Place on Twitter (i’m sorry I just can’t for the life of me us the word ‘tw@et’ in a post) offered a couple of great resources. First, I don’t know how I had missed this one, but a great site called Design Observer offers a fantastic array of writing on a…