Category: new media
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Thickened Waterfront from AALU
An email from Jorge Ayala from the AALU shows off some recent Landscape Urbanism work, in this case an academic workshop with a focus on designing a Contemporary Garden in Xi’an, China. I’ve included the full text from Jorge, and some of the images of the project that were sent. Thickened WaterfrontAA Landscape Urbanism Garden…
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Paper Cities
Another great video from Digital Urban shows a snippet of ‘Metropolis’ a time-lapse film by Rob Carter showing the evolution of Charlotte, NC: “Made entirely from images printed on paper, the animation literally represents this sped up urban planners dream, but suggests the frailty of that dream, however concrete it may feel on the ground…
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Modelling Dynamic Processes
One of the interesting links I found on Bradley Cantrell’s site showed a very cool project being developed by the UC Berkeley to simulate river dynamics, which have notoriously been difficult to replicate. Via Science Daily: “Christian Braudrick, William Dietrich and their colleagues are the first to build a scaled-down meandering stream in the lab…
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More on Digital Media
A follow-up to the interactive interview on Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture Bradley Cantrell sent me a couple of links to the work he and others are doing in the digitial realm down at Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. :: image via reactscape The first is his own blog, reactscape.visual-logic.com,…
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Retrofitting Suburbia
A nice long video from TEDx Atlanta featuring Ellen Dunham-Jones on Retrofitting Suburbia that “…takes you through retrofitted suburbia, transforming dead malls into buzzing downtown centers.”
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New Blogs
It’s been ages since I’ve posted about some of the recent blog additions. To maintain my sanity, I’ve decided that for each new blog I add to my personal RSS feed, I take another off (the total hovers around 120 or so, which is a lot of input). I keep all of them in the…
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Food City
Via ArchDaily, this study by MVRDV, The Why Factory and Stroom Den Haag looks at urban farming in the relationship to global food supplies. As David Basulto adds: “…urban farming goes more in the direction of the last phrase of the video: “could it (urban farming) help bringing some agriculture into the cities to bring…
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Drawing the Land
A unique opportunity to tap into one of the most creative minds in modern landscape architecture representation, Brad Cantrell, via an online webinar/interview on Land8Lounge conducted by Drew Maifield of The LANDWIRE. Cantrell is author of Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture (Published by Wiley, 2010) which promises to be the most complete resource of landscape…
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Next Step, the Holodeck
A coworker sent me a couple of videos showing an interesting new form of 3-D representation using holographic imagery created by Zebra Imaging from Austin, Texas. Cool stuff.
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DC Transit Visualization
Via Urban Tick, a visualization of the Washington DC transit system. “Developed by Rahul Nair in Processing. It is visualised in processing with a data set from WMATA transit system. The transport network has made their dat available trough the open Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS).” Cool representation.Washington D.C. Transit from Rahul Nair on Vimeo.…