Category: resources
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33 Blogs
One of the L+U favorites, A Daily Dose of Architecture (archidose) recently posted a list of their 33 Favorite blogs, and we happily find ourselves amidst the chosen few. This is some good company, and good reading – so check all of these out for your responsive, thoughtful, and visually stunning inspiration. :: Arch Daily…
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Freshkills Park Blog
A recent discovery via blog linking, the Freshkills Park Blog, offers some insight into the workings of the major large-scale and long-term landscape urbanist project of North America. “Freshkills Park Blog is compiled by members of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation team working to develop Freshkills Park. Blog entries represent the…
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The 21st Century Park & The Contemporary City
Via ASLA’s blog The Dirt, an announcement of an upcoming event that resonates with recent resurgence in thinking and discussion about the role of large civic parks. Happening in New York City and sponsored by The Forum For Urban Design some info from the Forum’s website: “In the past few years, there has been huge…
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Stats, Kind Words + Aggregation
I’ve been somewhat busy, and haven’t had a chance to see who has actually been reading the blog and commenting on it elsewhere – so a change for some interesting highlights I discovered in a recent search. Our recent review of the fantastic ‘The Infrastructural City’ caught the attention of the folks at Varnelis.net and…
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Reading List: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Landscape Design
As always, the holiday season came with a typically literary bent, as family and friends know of my bibliophilic tendencies – and I have a free moment or two to read – so look forward to some book reviews that have been waiting in the wings for a couple of months. One tome that was…
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Landscape on the Brain
Landscape is good. Landscape is healthy. Landscape is necessary. We all know this, innately, but a refresher is never a bad idea. This post made the rounds a few months back, quoting a study and article from the Boston Globe, ‘How the city hurts your brain, and what you can do about it.’ delves again…
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Be Careful What you Wish For…
Just kidding… I can’t think of anything better in the world to do. Plus we are multi-talented: Via Topophila: I Want to be a Landscape Architect“Landscape architecture combines environment and design, art and science. It is about everything outside the front door, both urban and rural, at the interface between people and natural systems. The…
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VIA: Urban Greenery
The blog/tumblr Urban Greenery offers a constant and seemingly endless stream of vegetated architecture in action, call it daily green, thus the theme of this installation of VIA focuses around a bevy of posts from this source (with a few others thrown in for measure). One of the most stunning is from Core77, combining mass…
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Energy Dump
Not a lot festering here in terms of energy links, but a couple of interesting ideas related to our electricity infrastructure – coming from two different worlds. The first takes a look at our existing power structure – namely the ubiquitous grid. From InfraNet Lab, this post announces the ‘Power of Ecosystems/Ecosystems of Power’ –…
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Transportation Dump
I’ve been doing a ton of research lately on green streets, so that’s cause some focus beyond the general bigger picture of transportation. And with all of the upcoming spending on infrastructure through stimulation – it will be interesting to see how much of this will be green, how much will be grey, or at…