Landscape+Urbanism

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  • Fringe Urbanism

    Not a variation of my favorite new FOX series, but a lecture happening tomorrow at University of Oregon Department of Architecture in Portland at the White Stag. FRINGE URBANISMUNTAPPED POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE SUBURBSLecture by Nico Larco, Asst. Professor, UO Department of Architecture Noon, Wednesday January 20 White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch, Event Roomwith Live…

  • Greenroads

    While the recent explosion of interesting and application of Green Streets is well documented, the announcement of a new program to provide sustainability metrics for Greenroads comes at an opportune time when infrastructure seems to be one of the only things getting funded. From the website (which is still under construction): “Greenroads is a sustainability…

  • FOOD inc.

    The beauty of being taken down by illness is the opportunity to lay on the couch and catch up with some movies that have been in the queue. One such film was FOOD inc., a documentary that provided a concise summary of the content of Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma –…

  • City Limits: Distance from the Center

    As a follow-up to the exploration of the introduction to David Oates’ book City Limits I wanted to write a bit about the first essay in the book, entitled ‘Distance from the Center’, which seems appropriate as a quick take on this thing we call the Urban Growth Boundary as well as the dynamic of…

  • 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. ::…

  • Personal Infrastructures

    Working on some link house-cleaning and came up with a few posts that seems to thread together in an interesting narrative. The first of this was a beautiful installation for the ‘Flower Street BioReactor’ via Dezeen: “Los Angeles architects Emergent have designed an installation filled with green algae that produce oil by photosynthesis.” This sort…

  • 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…

  • Reading List: Kerb 17: Is LA Dead?

    “Landscape architecture has not evolved the necessary operational agility to manage the growing complexity of regional urban infrastructures… Contemporary landscape architecture should seek to generate new performative models of infrastructural form that renew the biophysical environment while facilitating a regional understanding of market forces. Landscape architecture has failed to embrace the technical complexity of infrastructural…

  • Quest for the Livable City

    For an upcoming seminar class that myself and my colleague Brett Milligan are teaching in the Winter Quarter at the University of Oregon Architecture Program here in Portland, I’ve been doing a good bit of research on our local planning. Look for some upcoming posts here and at Brett’s blog FAD on the topic of…

  • 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…