Category: resources
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Radical Cartography
A very cool site that was reintroduced to me recently is Radical Cartography, one of the most interesting collections of maps out there (with the exception of maybe the wonderfully oddball collection over at Strange Maps). I had lost touch with the site, after this cool post on Agriculture maps of the US from back…
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New Blogs
It’s been a while since I posted a list of new (or at least new to me) blogs that I’ve stumbled across in my travels. I’ll add them to the sidebar soon. There are definitely a good amount of upstart Landscape Architecture and related blogs – which is good to see – and I’m hopeful…
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Some SDATisfaction
‘A Leaner, Greener Detroit: A Report by the American Institute of Architects Sustainable Design Assessment Team‘ is (finally) available for download. As one of the contributors, it is great to finally see it in living color. Find the link to the final report here… I will be posting on this after I’ve had a chance…
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World Map of Shrinking Cities
Showing that the idea of shrinking cities is not a localized, unique, or recent phenonomenon, a great video spotted via synchronicity from shrinking cities. World Map of Shrinking Cities from 1kilo on Vimeo.
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Take to the Streets
I just passed a milestone of sorts… topping out at 500 posts (not to mention a few on the new Veg.itecture blog…). Seems like just yesterday I was starting this humble outlet for collecting thoughts – fighting with time to blog amidst time to work and occupying all of grey area in between. Often times,…
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Plant Power
We often discuss the types of ways vegetation can be of benefit to humans – for instance phytoremediation. A few posts that loosely collect into a narrative regarding some unique opportunities to engage plants in our social and environmental structures in inventive ways. The benefits are myriad and wonderful. Read on. Crime PreventionVia Treehugger: “Suginami,…
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The Incredible Shrinking City
In response to a recent post on Detroit, David Jurca from the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) directed me to the very cool Shrinking Cities Institute at Kent State University which “…seeks to examine more sustainable approaches to development and explore the idea of planned shrinkage as an alternative to the quest for continuous growth.”…
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2009 MoPo Runner-Up of the Year… Sweet!
I wrote, no, begged… in fact, pleaded one year ago to be considered for the MoPo 2008 listings after reading the listing of the veritable who’s who of the architecture-blog world. I am pleased to see that L+U has made the list (I’m not below groveling 🙂 for this years Eikongraphia’s MoPo 2009 – a…
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Detroit: Urbanist Opportunity
An interesting post via the Sustainable Cities Collective from Kaid Benfield asks the provocative question “Is Detroit (the city) a lost cause environmentally? Altogether?” and again makes me wonder why it is that Detroit seems to always get framed in thoughts of negativity, versus thinking of it as a potential opportunity to redefine the way…
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LAM Blog Love
The latest issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine featured an article by Daniel Jost, ASLA, that was nice enough to include our fair blog in it’s pages: “The Dirt on Blogging: How can blogs change the way we communicate about landscape architecture?” offers examples and advice on how landscape architecture professionals can utilize this simple yet…