Category: new media
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Data Appeal – Making Map-Landscapes
A follow-up on new mapping tools from the author of ‘The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles’ (read a review of this great book here). Nadia Amoroso alerted me to a new endeavor called Data Appeal, which provides tools for visualization of data through mapping in order to engage people in new ways. London –…
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Unlocking LU 2: The Re-Representation of Urbanism
Continuing the thread of review for the new landscape urbanism website, I’m discussing ‘The Re-Representation of Urbanism’ by Gerdo Aquino, SWA Principal as well as educator and author of the book ‘Landscape Infrastructure’ (see L+U review here). As a fundamental opening to his essay, Aquino mentions the major shift that has taken place towards urbanization…
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Unlocking LU 1: Indeterminacy & Multiplicity
So as promised, I was planning on posting on some of the great content related to the initial issue on the Landscape Urbanism website. The introduction by Sarah Kathleen Peck and Eliza Shaw Valk brings up some of the questions around the concept – with a focus on ‘indeterminacy’ and ‘multiplicity‘ as well as looking…
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Unlocking Landscape Urbanism
Right before I took off on my travels, the brand new Landscape Urbanism website launched with its first issue. Due to the rigors of travel (you know, scenic vistas, wine, great food, etc.) I was not able to dig into the content before I left – but finally did manage to get all of it…
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Waldheim – LU Video
Say what you will about this crazy debate, I finally took an hour to watch this, and its a pretty interesting introduction to landscape urbanism. Looking forward to seeing the CNU presentation and discussion – anyone know if that’s going to be posted? 2010 – Charles Waldheim from College of Arts & Architecture on Vimeo.
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1 million visitors
My blogging has tapered off recently due to going to school and running my business – but it’s still exciting to see the overall number of visitors going over 1 million, which is a wonderful landmark for the site. I’m definitely always looking to adapt and adjust the site for maximizing my understanding of landscape…
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RBC: Urban Earth: Mumbai
Urban Earth: Mumbai | Raven-Elison & Askins Urban Earth, with studies in Mumbai, Mexico City, and London: Their approach: “walking across some of Earth’s biggest urban areas, to explore their spatial realities for the people who live there and challenge dominant media discourses regarding the places in which most of us now live. The idea…
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Reading the Landscape: A Reference Manifesto
As mentioned previously we are fully engaged in a group reading of the Landscape Urbanism Reader, edited by Charles Waldheim, and as promised, are providing some brief synopses of what transpired in the previous weeks dialogue are regular intervals. Our first week was a soft launch, allowing folks to introduce themselves to the group, and…
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Got Something to Say?
Landscape Urbanism is looking for essays, thoughts, ideas + innovative aproaches to landscape urbanism. We are looking for unique approaches to defining, understanding, communicating, and practicing landscape urbanism. Clarity of writing and communication are imperative. If you had to explain landscape architecture or landscape urbanism to the public, how would you describe it? Why does…
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American Dream Survival Guide
An interesting project by David (d.e.) Sellers, called ‘American Dream Survival Guide‘ offers a series of podcasts with a goal to “…spread information and propagate solutions and cooperation to tackle the challenges that face the U.S. in the 21st century” The project is produced by Explore Lab Radio from the faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and…