Category: resources
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Best of… the Rest
Well, finally back at it after a bit of time off and some flurry of activity around Parking Day 2009. More to come on our ‘award winning’ most playful entry to the Seattle People’s Parking Lot, and the beauty of oversized Connect Four – and stay tuned for more posts upcoming. :: 4-Play – image…
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Video: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
A great video series on YouTube – featuring ‘The Social Life of Small urban Spaces’ videos (a companion to the book, or is that vice-versa) by William ‘Holly’ Whyte . The content is kind of late Mad Men era (OK it’s the 1970s, but one expects Don Draper to mosey through the shot looking dapper,…
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Digital Exhaustion
It’s seems a little time off makes one introspective, or at the very least a bit nostalgic. Did you ever feel that impossible to scratch, lingering itch in the back of your mind? You know, the one that you can’t subsume, but says we’ve devolved from a culture that celebrates the built beauty and artistry…
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Urban Ag-gregations
Nothing is more hot this year than the idea of urban agriculture in it’s many forms. Perhaps due to the economic downturn or maybe just a natural extension of our new found urban ecologic sensibility that includes urban agriculture at the highest levels – there is not shortage of the wonderful and the questionable in…
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Park(ing) Day
One month to go… should be the best ever. We are joining the folks up in Seattle from People’s Parking Lot(s) as they take over a parking lot and transform it into Central Park(ing) with festivities, designs, small businesses, renewable energy, a design charrette and more. We shall see how many goodies we can pack…
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LEED Sustainable Sites
I was fortunate enough recently to be chosen for the US Green Building Council’s Technical Assistance Group for Sustainable Sites (SS TAG). This appointment will allow me to be directly involved in defining how sustainable site strategies are integrated in existing determinations and future iterations of various LEED rating systems. The following is an interview…
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Linx: 08.05.09
L+U LinkFest: 08.09.09A collection of links from the past two weeks. See the entire list via delicious > landscapeurbanism :: Crisis Modes – image via ArchidoseLandscape+Urbanism: A Daily Dose of Architecture: Crisis Modes Art for Urban Planners – Part One | Planetizen Maps are all around us Franklin & Marshall – Public Parks and the…
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Landscape Architects = Green
Originally published in Engineering News-Record, and now posted in Architectural Record, the big news of the day is “Landscape Architects Play Central Role in Green Design.” Wow, that’s some real journalism 🙂 But kidding aside, it’s great to see the profession getting some much deserved accolades in the realm of sustainability – which has been…
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Reading List: Healing Spaces
In an attempt to give back to all of the fine publishers that send me review copies of books, I’m striving for a couple of weeks of posts in the spirit of the ‘Overdue Book Report’. First on the list is a great book that I just finished this morning, “Healing Spaces: The Science of…
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Design Observer + Places
A heads up from @Space2Place on Twitter (i’m sorry I just can’t for the life of me us the word ‘tw@et’ in a post) offered a couple of great resources. First, I don’t know how I had missed this one, but a great site called Design Observer offers a fantastic array of writing on a…