Category: portland
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Exporting Sustainability
A shameless plug for a fantastic upcoming workshop/summit this summer. If you want to travel and learn from the lessons of the Portland region, get some credit, and interact with other professionals around sustainability – this is not one to miss. Oh, and you get to hang out with me, too… 🙂Sustainability in the Urban…
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Career Shifts…
Things in June have been quiet around here while I seriously contemplate a career shift to acting, as a way of increasing my credibility and potential to access high-end ‘green’ projects… 🙂 And, there have been a few presentations of our habitats entry as well – one for a great local group called ccurbangreen. Or…
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Media Good & Bad = Rant
Ok, perhaps the last post on Integrating Habitats. Oh, probably not. Anyway, the best part of competitions is the joy of having freedom to explore ideas outside of the confines of either client or constraint (wherever these may come from). The second best thing is working to create a winning entry, and then sitting back…
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Regional Green
A busy week, and apologies for lack of posting. I’m well under my once-a-day quota for March, but alas – work is hopping with exciting projects in the region. As I mentioned in a previous post, we tend to take for granted the innovative projects that come out of the Pacific Northwest. The recent National…
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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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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…
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100: Seeds Revisited
Well, it’s happened eventually. On this auspicious day, we post the 100th entry to Landscape+Urbanism. It has definitely not been too long since I got over my misguided hatred of blogs and got motivated (and inspired by all the others out there) to start my own. So let’s revisit the simple ideas I threw out…
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Local Color: Portland
Ah, I do spend time looking around the world for precedents and interesting projects. There is no shortage of amazing innovation and imagery around the globe and the web. Sometimes I forget to look in my own backyard (so to speak). I’ve previously picked up on some great coverage of a few GreenWorks projects, as…
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Stormwater to the Streets
A short while back I was surprised to see in one of my favorite blogs, Pruned, an article entitled: ‘Hyperlocalizing Hydrology in the Post-Industrial Urban Landscape’. For most, is just a hyperbolic hydrologic way of saying, look, green streets! The profile focusses on the award-winning work of Portland’s own Kevin Robert Perry, currently employed at…
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Past Forward: Mannahatta
I may have mentioned my love of historic urban maps. If not, then I will plead guilty here, and offer up Strange Maps as a vital modern contribution to our historical heritage, and let slip fact that I’ve read most of the written works of Mark Monmonier. As objects, maps are fascinating artifacts. Even more…