Category: resources
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Daily Double + A Flurry of Darts
I’m typically not one to focus on my own doings terribly often on the blog – but I had to laugh at the fortune of this press double-play today from my home city of Portland. First, from writer Sam Bennett from the Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce – investigating the potential of the Sustainable Sites…
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Reading List: Drosscape
Early in the life of this (still youthful) blog, I had a short throwaway post about Modes of Representation – and echoed a term I had heard regarding ‘visual masturbation’ – the analogue of the pointless drivel associated with verbal masturbation. While there are still countless examples of both in the design and planning spheres…
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Questioning EcoMetropolitanism
Perhaps I missed the memo regarding a new found integration of ‘wildness’ into our cities as the 2009 topic to watch. Maybe it started with Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estates – jumping to Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and the idea of City Zoo, shifting to the more expansive concept from _urb about Post Humanist Rewilded Eco Ethical…
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Introducing TerraScreen
We’re developing a couple of projects that will utilize green wall systems – and am always on the lookout for possible systems and technologies. In this regard, I was happy to receive a recent email from Shane Pliska, the brains behind a new living wall system called TerraScreen. Spun out of the work of Planterra,…
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Like Looking in a Mirror
A new blog (as of December ’08) was one of those surreal moments where you start looking through the collected posts and realize that like seeing a reflection of where your personal interests lie. Urban Greenery is aptly and simply named, and offers snapshots of… you guessed it – urban greenery. A lot of the…
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Seiwooo = Graphic Bliss
An email from Mannisi Alban alerted me to some of the fine graphic work that is present on the Seiwooo site – a portfolio of work spanning the past ten years. It’s rare to find a wide range of different graphic techniques in one spot, so these are definitely worthy of a look – if…
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Picturing Smart Growth
A recent email from Kaid Benfield, fellow blogger and Director of Smart Growth for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) alerted me to an interesting visual tool they had recently unveiled, called Picturing Smart Growth” A short overview: “With generous assistance from our friends at Urban Advantage, NRDC has created a map of the United…
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Playgrounds in the Sky
The great retro-blog Modern Mechanix is a great visit down memory lane. As a kid that poured through issues of Popular Mechanics and the like dreaming of inventions and innovations, the content is pretty compelling – predominantely to connect some of the ‘visonary’ new ideas with their historical precedents. A recent interesting post ‘Playgrounds in…
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Five Things…
Another indication of the trend of 2009… a post by The Architects Journal offers five things to do for January 12th… the first of which is to Veg out: :: image via Archispass “Ken Yeang seems to be the current king Vegitect. It’s true that Michael Sorkin first used the word ‘vegitecture’ in a 1979…
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Our Crumbling Infrastructure [aka Call Before You Dig]
[UPDATE: 01.10.09 – As mentioned, I recieved this as an email forward – one of those ubiquitous things that get pitched around in our digital age – thus had no context in which to verify the story. Thus, it turns out that the pics are from a corrosion-related rupture of the high pressure gas line…