Category: representation
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Field Ops is Hot (Still)
In addition to being named on the top 10 list in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Architecture Companies (the only LA on the list) and the major success of the High Line, a couple of recent wins have pushed James Corner Field Operations fully from the realm of the theoretical provocateur, to competition all-star to full-fledged…
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Sprawl Repair Kit
I was not terribly impressed by the collective productivity of last years Reburbia competition. There were highlights, but one was left wondering what all the fuss was about – and if these short, open-ended festivities were worth the attention. One exception in terms of ideas is the Urban Sprawl Repair Kit (via Inhabitat) by Galina…
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New Blogs
It’s been ages since I’ve posted about some of the recent blog additions. To maintain my sanity, I’ve decided that for each new blog I add to my personal RSS feed, I take another off (the total hovers around 120 or so, which is a lot of input). I keep all of them in the…
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Food City
Via ArchDaily, this study by MVRDV, The Why Factory and Stroom Den Haag looks at urban farming in the relationship to global food supplies. As David Basulto adds: “…urban farming goes more in the direction of the last phrase of the video: “could it (urban farming) help bringing some agriculture into the cities to bring…
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Drawing the Land
A unique opportunity to tap into one of the most creative minds in modern landscape architecture representation, Brad Cantrell, via an online webinar/interview on Land8Lounge conducted by Drew Maifield of The LANDWIRE. Cantrell is author of Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture (Published by Wiley, 2010) which promises to be the most complete resource of landscape…
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Bing Mapping
Since I was first introduced to Bing Maps, I’ve been quite intrigued by the Sim-Cityish axonometric views of the world that offers expanded possibilities for urban analyses. The architect of the system, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows off the features. (Via cityofsound)
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Next Step, the Holodeck
A coworker sent me a couple of videos showing an interesting new form of 3-D representation using holographic imagery created by Zebra Imaging from Austin, Texas. Cool stuff.
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Urban Ag Infographic
The previous post on the ‘branches’ of urban agriculture made me think of a recent graphic that I created for a local project with Oregon Solutions that investigated approaches to expanding the availability and reach of community gardening in Portland. Read more on the process here. While less expansive than the previous example, a vital…
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Branches: Urban Agriculture
I found an interesting and complex graphic on the many facets and interrelations of urban agriculture via the site Urban Agriculture Worldwide, which is published by David Mason and tracks his journeys investigating UA examples around the globe from 2006-2009. The site has immense amounts of information (and is frankly frustrating to navigate) so I’ve…
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Urban Cartography
There are some interesting links I’ve stumbled upon recently (a round-up of which is forthcoming), one worth some exploration is a site entitled Urban Cartography. The posts simply show collected imagery of a variety of informatics and other interesting mashups of data from around the globe. Not mapping in the traditional sense, these densely woven…