Category: planning
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It’s an Eco-Planning World
Time to re-engage with the amazing eco-planning happening around the globe. We took a tongue-in-cheek look with the Suburb Eating Robots, as well as a more in depth and serious look at Auroville, a visionary community in southern India. For a great follow-up to this project, read Brice Maryman’s first-person account of a design-build trip…
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Grey to Green: Action?
I mentioned previously the announcement of a proposal by Portland City Commissioner (and mayoral candidate) Sam Adams for ‘Grey to Green’… after an epic roll-out – there has been little talk since. Well that has changed in a flash with another big invite to City Council for an event this week to take some action.…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt.3: Restoration
We complete this aqueous journey (don’t you love when something simple turns into something wonderful?) and we end with some brutal reality and some hope as to our ability to turn the tide of our technological wrong-doing. I would posit that perhaps the most compelling reading of the year so far in landscape architecture were…
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Auroville
I previously focused on the work of Ecocity World Summit 2008 speaker Ken Yeang with this history of bioclimatic design and vegetated architecture. From this post, I recently recieved a heads up about another of the conference speakers, Lalit Bhati, and the community of Auroville – a perhaps too-good-to-be-true but still evolving along slice of…
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No More Suburbs
This has been covered all over the web – and well, it’s just a good story that needed to be told. Perennial provocateur Andrew Maynard, whom appeared on L+U with his Tattoo House, has now developed an intricately woven design for ‘Suburb Eating Robots’. While whimsical – there is a significant amount a truth and…
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Design for Good
Ok, this is two posts from CNN in the span of a couple of weeks. And I don’t actual watch CNN, except for when trapped in an airport with the constant 10 minute new cycle. But this one is pretty impressive for major media outlet… Principal Voices is a ongoing series of discussion and dialogue…
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Midtown Mews
A Garden of Eden Grows in ManhattanFrom the blog No Land Grab, via Curbed NY… of all the April Fools ephemera – this one made me laugh the most. Enjoy!:: image via No Land Grab Some highlights from the project, which offers:…22 Acres of underutilized land, transformed into a vibrant*, gated enclave. (*or, vast parking…
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Integrating Habitats Competition: Urban Ecotones
Well it’s finally official – the announcement of winners and the like for the Integrating Habitats Competition. The celebration was held about a month ago now (Feb 26) and we’ve all been basking in the warm glow of adoration since then… The team and our entry got lot’s of photo ops at the celebration (that’s…
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Parks: With Los Angeles Style
A couple of recent announcements in World Architecture News has definitely aimed the spotlight at Los Angeles for cutting edge parks and open space implementation. And this doesn’t even include the local media-saturated Orange County Great Park (subject of some upcoming coverage of our own here at L+U). The first project is by one of…
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Transportation and Space
It sounds obvious when you say it (and it has been said many times before) but it is always striking to see how influential modes of transportation are on the shaping of our cities. The magnitude and impacts are immense but also provide a range of new opportunities to explore. The typical figure ground study…