Category: resources
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Yard Sharing
An article in today’s Oregonian has a bevy of local resources for one of the cooler trends of the urban agricultural movement, garden sharing, “… a trend that appears to be spreading roots across the metro area as apartment dwellers and landowners, strangers and neighbors unite to grow their food at a time when seed…
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Biophilic v. Technophilic Solutions
As part of an ongoing mapping project of green building and sites being conducted through a group of local architectural and environmental groups, a small side-committee of Oregon ASLA members is looking at dissecting the idea of sustainable sites. To this end, we are using the Sustainable Sites Initiative (as well as some other systems)…
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Mapping Green
An interesting post from Treehugger points out the power of ‘maps’ as inventive ways to capture the complexity of ecological systems and provides education and support for ideas. An article mentioned (via core77) in Communication Arts entitled ‘Mapping Power’ references this idea in detail (and worth a careful read). :: image via Treehugger One example…
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Veg.itecture Spin-Off
It’s fun to see something that seemed relatively nascent a few years back grow into a full-fledged phenomenon. The growth of vegetated architecture projects and the number of sites covering this topic has literally exploded of late, and I was fearful that the entire Landscape+Urbanism blog would be eclipsed and framed by Veg.itecture rather than…
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Peril of the Forgotten
One of the most amazing and sad sights from my trip last year to Detroit was a swing ’round the disheveled and crumbling Michigan Central Depot, a massive train station built by the same architects responsible for NYC’s iconic Grand Central Station. With it’s monumental scale and litany of busted out windows, our group was…
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Alt/Urbs
A kind commenter directed me to the site Alt/Urbs. An online journal billed as ‘an electronic potlatch’, the site is open for submissions of unpublished work related to ‘alternative urbanization, design, and radical urban geography’. It’s an interesting usage of the term ‘potlach‘ to describe the process – but overall the idea is good… and…
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Reading List: CPULs
This is one of those densely packed and overpriced small volumes that make you think twice a few times in the bookstore – until you get your hands on it and unlock some of the potential of Andre Viljoen‘s thoughts on Continous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. :: image via Transition…
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Wilderness, Continued…
Book Review continued from Part I: Reading List: Wilderness and the American MindAldo Leopold’s ideas of a ‘land ethic’ and ‘ecological conscience’ offered a touchstone for a new movement – giving birth to the idea of instilling Americans with a love and respect for their land. While mostly known for the amazing work ‘A Sand…
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3 New Blogs
A few interesting new blogs that have either been pointed out to me or I’ve stumbled upon in the last weeks… do you have a blog that would be worth a cross-link? Let me know.Fitting nicely into the Veg.itectural, I got an email from blogger Will Gorman about his blog ‘Cleaner Air through Green Roofs’…
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Reading List: Green Roof Systems
My good friends at Wiley sent me a copy of the long-awaited ‘Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Landscapes over Structure‘ by Susan K Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth. At first glance, the book is not remarkably pretty, which is usually a sign of a reference that aims for substance…