Category: planning
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City Concealed: Staten Island
I previously featured a video from the online video series “The City Concealed” produced by Thirteen, a project of New York station WNET. The series offers glimpses into some of the terrain vague of the metropolis by: “…exploring the unseen corners of New York. Visit the places you don’t know exist, locations you can’t get…
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Smart Growth
One of the recent awards from the EPA for the 2010 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement went to Portland Metro region for it’s 2040 Growth Concept. Policies, Programs, and Regulations: 2040 Growth Concept, Portland metro, OregonEPA says: Metro, the elected regional government of the Portland, Oregon, area, is making sure that future population growth can be…
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Aquifers not Aquitards
From the recent post on watershed boundaries, a reader mentioned the concept of underground aquifers and their relation to geographical boundaries and . My title is in jest (sort of) referring to ‘Aquitards’ which according to Wikipedia is “a zone within the earth that restricts the flow of groundwater from one aquifer to another“, but…
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Upcoming Lecture on Detroit
Detroit: the 21st Century Challenge – a test of equity, vitality, and sustainability THURSDAY DECEMBER 9TH, 5:30 TO 7 P.M. Please join us for a moderated discussion with Dr. Ellen Bassett of the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and a panel of speakers including Dr. Robin Boyle of Wayne State University in Detroit;…
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Parsley On the Building
A great overview on Urban Omnibus features some of the recent site specific events in the 50th Anniversary of the GSD celebrating the half century of urban design (which at least in a modern perspective evolved from Harvard and mid-twentieth century theorists). While the author seems to incorrectly equate concepts ecological urbanism and landscape urbanism,…
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More on the Urbanism Wars
GSD as Epicenter The escalation of voices in the (let’s call it debate for lack of a better term) about some of the urbanisms out there – most notably New Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism, has kicked up a notch even in the past few weeks since the initial salvos. There has been a fair amount…
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Artificial Rivers
A post on Gardenvisit discusses the historical idea of creating artificial landscapes, in this case the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, to appear ‘natural’. :: image via Gardenvisit “In 1730 Queen Charlotte ordered the damming of the Westbourne River as part of a general redevelopment of Hyde Park and Kennsington Gardens by Charles Bridgeman. The…
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On Agrarian Urbanism
An opportunity for point-counterpoint on the topic of Agrarian Urbanism – one that, with the recent explosion of discussion and interest in urban agriculture – is vital to discussing the place of food in the city, and what impact this will have on the form and function of our urban agglomerations. The topic is poignant…
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New City Landscape Denver
From Urban Tick, an interesting graphic display of social media that creates a new ‘landscape’ of the City of Denver. Check out the site for more maps from around the world. (images are screenshots from the interactive map) Some info: “This New City Landscape represents location based twitter activity as the tweetography of the city.…