Category: representation
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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.…
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From Mowing to Growing
Via BLDGBLOG, a competition announcement about one of the most intriguing competitions recently. This one investigates the ideas related to food and urban agriculture, the hot topic of the last year. One Prize is Organized by Terreform 1 with a subtheme: “From Mowing to Growing is not meant to transform each lawn into a garden,…
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The Blue Road
A link worth checking out is from Dutch artist Henk Hofstra who painted roadways vibrant blue to symbolize hidden watercourses in the 2007 piece entitled ‘The Blue Road’.:: images via Henk Hofstra “In April 2007… a road in Drachten, The Netherlands, is painted blue to symbolise the water. It is 1000 meters long and 8…
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BEST Parking Lot
I do love a good pic of James Wines BEST stores (see videos & images here), particularly those blending site with store (or in this case folding program under parking). Something about this dreary gray representation that I just love. :: image via underpaid genius
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Representing Motion
Picking up on the thread of Transect Representation, I recalled that Urban Tick had recently posted a graphic from ‘The View from the Road’ (Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard et al., MIT press, Boston, 1964) – one that I hadn’t previously heard of and sounds somewhat applicable to the idea of representational strategies for movement. ::…
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A New Year
It’s another year, and of course time to reflect on the previous year (and even decade) while looking forward to the upcoming year. Many changes are in store for the upcoming year, both professionally and with the content of Landscape+Urbanism – which is always a work in progress. Thanks for reading in 2009. :: L+U…
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Representing Transects
Picking up on a couple of great posts on transect delineation over at FAD (and a lively discussion thread as well that is worth checking out), this idea continues to permeate the discussions around the Urban Edge. :: image via CATS Taking a different tack than the critique of the transect per se (of which…
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Soundtrack for Spaces 2
This video reminded me of a post from this past summer regarding Soundtrack for Spaces, where I speculated on the connection of space and a particular experiential musical accompaniment (particularly that viewed while in motion). Check out this one, compiled from Google Street View imagery with a soundtrack by Phoenix. (via Urban Tick) Brilliant. Google…
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WPA Video: Local Code / Real Estates
I managed to butcher the announcement of the WPA 2.0 finalists a few weeks back… (which should be up to date now)… and was made aware of it thanks to Ben Golder, one of the team members from the Local Code team. He recently sent me this link to a video of their project. I…
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WPA 2.0 Student Finalists
As a follow-up to the previous post, the student award finalists were announced as well, including a few of the notables images from some of the entries.“R_Ignite” was designed by four graduate students of the Manchester School of Architecture – Peter Millar, Jamie Potter, Andy Wilde and Stuart Wheeler. This proposal revitalizes port cities and…