Category: planning
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Speaking Dequindre
Detroit is still on my mind often as I see the duality of ongoing issues and inspirational stories of rebirth. It was great to see news of the recent opening of the Dequindre Cut, a section of abandoned rail line connecting the waterfront to areas of the Central City. I remember the Dequindre fondly, as…
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Models, Now and Then
Spotted on Places and Spaces, this ‘lifelike’ 3-D model of Portland posted in Digital Urban offers a glimpse into the new wave of modeling, cobbled together from a variety of sources and punctuated by some visual fly-throughs that are quite stunning. This model was created by local firm Newlands & Company (aka NC3D), the cream…
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SEAing Green Streets
Probably a case of green streets on the brain – but a current pro-bono project has inspired me do some looking back at a range of innovative stormwater projects using the street rights-of-way. One of the best is Seattle’s SEA Street project. SEA stands for ‘Street Edge Alternatives’ and is part of the Natural Drainage…
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Warped Perspectives
A horizonless project in Manhattan called Here & There, by Schulze & Webb that gives a roller-coaster like view of the island. These are really, really cool… nuff said. :: images via Space Invading
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Drawing Water
This great image (from BLDGBLOG) featuring a proposal from EDAW for a 2008 exhibition from the London Festival of Architecture entitled ‘If I could design London I would…‘ As pointed out on the BLDGBLOG post, the poster features some compelling retro-futuristic graphics that look at the water-based configuration of London. :: image via BLDGBLOG A…
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Delirious Detroit: Land of UnReal Estate
After a brief, work induced break from blogging, I’ve amassed a collection of posts from Detroit, which seems to be getting a lot of attention of late as perhaps the poster child of urban voids. The report that we worked on in last falls SDAT is slowly nearing publication, so definitely check back here for…
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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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Map Regression
A great and informative post on some garden history from none other than gardenhistorygirl explores the idea of map regressions, in particular the Mikhailovsky Garden in St. Petersburg. This time-based approach captures moments of design through particular eras, showing how public space and garden design is influenced (although sometimes with a bit of a lag)…
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DailyLand: Green Island
Somewhat of a visionary departure for the DailyLand feature, these visions of ‘green’ urbanism in the literal Green Island proposals of a vegetated Tokyo are both confrontational and thought provoking. It makes me think directly of the previous post wishing for green transit, and taking it a whole city further. Specifically I ask… would cities…
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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…