Landscape+Urbanism

Category: representation

  • Essay in ‘Atlantis’ Magazine

    I am happy to report that a recent essay was published in ‘Atlantis’ Magazine, which is published by Polis and collects writings that make “…the link between students, academics and professionals besides the Polis activities. This magazine is our medium to keep you as member up to date about everything going on in the urbanism…

  • Kerb 20 Seeking Submissions

    Kerb is one of best journals out there for landscape architecture – and you can be part of their next issue around the topic ‘speculative narrative’.  Here’s the call for submissions: KERB 20 IS SEEKING SUBMISSIONS OF ESSAYS/PROJECTS/ ARTWORKS/ STORIES ETC Speculative narrative and the potential of imagination are important factors in creative production. It is…

  • Guest Post: The Other Plane

    The Porter House project by SHoP Architects doesn’t quite sit right with the eye. Greg Pasquarelli, one of the founding principals of the New York firm, gave a great lecture at the University of Washington last year in which he elaborated on the achievement of finding an innovative solution to the challenge of expanding the…

  • Building a Bike Highway

    The video of the presentation for GOOD Ideas for Cities is up, along with a nice write-up from organizer Alissa Walker from GOOD – so enjoy. Also check out some more detail, and download a PDF of the presentation over at the THINK.urban site.

  • Soundtrack for Spaces – Next Generation

    I have discussed the concept  previous posts on the ‘Soundtrack for Spaces’, where I was making connections between physical locations in the landscape and the potential to imbue place with appropriate musical accompaniment.  These varied, but included looking at the Fleet Foxes as driving music in the Columbia River Gorge, the video customization for Arcade…

  • THINK.urban – Infographic: Portland, King of Bikeopolis

    Cross Posting from THINK.urban (12/20/11):  A simple variation on the biking infographic from yesterday, this animated version from GOOD shows how Portland leads in the bike wars, just barely, between US cities for percentage of commuters by bike.

  • THINK.urban Infographic: Bicycling, the Present and Future

    Cross Posted from THINK.urban:  A nice one from Sustainablog, with some juicy facts about biking today (and tomorrow). Graphic produced by WellHome.

  • Data Appeal – Making Map-Landscapes

    A follow-up on new mapping tools from the author of ‘The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles’ (read a review of this great book here).  Nadia Amoroso alerted me to a new endeavor called Data Appeal, which provides tools for visualization of data through mapping in order to engage people in new ways. London –…

  • Europe Journal: Home Base

    An interesting aspect of the European journey was the ability not to stay in hostels or hotels, but to live in some of the places that people actually inhabit in these cities.  This was done courtesy of crashing on my sisters couch in London, and utilizing the fabulous air.bnb for finding amazing flats to stay…

  • Europe Journal: Signs of the Times

    A photographic exploration of a few of the more interesting tidbits of signage from the recent travels to Europe.  Enjoy. Sad day when you need prohibit street musicians (London) Excellent advice for those from the states (London) Creative sign manipulation (London) The Catalan spirit continues (Barcelona) Closeup of doors of the Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) Taking…