Category: resources
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Ecotransitional Urbanism
This project came to Landscape+Urbanism via new LU graduate Jorge Ayala, from the AALU in London. It’s an interesting use of Landscape Urbanism principals in Chinese urban areas – balancing ecotourism with fragile natural systems in a rapidly growing region. [following images and text from Jorge – thanks!] ECOTRANSITIONAL URBANISM Pearl River Delta, ChinaJORGE AYALA…
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The Detroit Dilemma
As mentioned previously, I spent an intensive three-day long whirlwind charrette in Detroit, Michigan as part of on interdisciplinary team for the Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) program as part of the AIAs Communities by Design Program. This was my first SDAT experience, as well as my first visit to Detroit (short of passing through…
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Down with People… NW Style
Shameless self- and blog- promo… via Ultimate NW Magazine… p.38… Enjoy. :: images via Ultimate NW (Click to Enlarge)
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The ‘Bill Gates of Sustainability’
There is little doubt that the reputation of William McDonough (WMD) and that of green design are somewhat synonymous. As one of the fore-fathers of this modern ‘green boom’ we are in the midst of, and one of the thought leaders of our time, WMD has occupied a spot near the apex of this architectural…
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World Veg.itecture from Land8Lounge
One of the great things about the network of professionals and students that are members of Land8Lounge is the ability to cast a wide, international net for specific information. Case in point, an ongoing discussion on World Examples of Veg.itecture to go along with the group of the similar name – which is my way…
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Don’t Look Back…?
This was definitely an eye-catching title on the ASLA snippet blog The Dirt… ‘Don’t Look Back’, in response to a recent NY Times article that focused on a Alan Berger’s restoration efforts in Italian Pontine Marshes. In summary, this: “…proposal to basically invent a natural system to purify heavily polluted waters running into the Mediterranean…
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Reading List: Materials for Sustainable Sites
It’s rare to find a must-read book for the profession of landscape architecture. This is not to say that there aren’t a bunch of amazing books to highlight a diversity of works – including projects, theories, styles and interests. It is, however, rather uncommon for the topical nature of a text to be able to…
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Eco-Boulevard Redux
Some more on a project I have touched upon this project a bit in a previous post, Eco-Boulevard, from Spanish innovators Ecosistema Urbano. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to delve into some more of the eye-candy from Arch Daily… and definitely don’t miss Ecosystem Urbano’s great blog as well… which gleans some great urban…
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Should the Next President Listen to this man?
ArchNewsNow tipped me off to an article by Mitchell Joachim, visionary architect and educator – as well as partner in the non-profit Terreform 1 – a firm whose work has been referenced on L+U previously. The link to a short article on Wired was interesting, and worth reading. As one of the 2008 Smart List,…
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Missing the Trees for the ‘Forest’
A bit under a year ago, my beginning as a fledgling blogger had a start as a blog reader – and my two favorites were Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG and Alexander Trevi’s Pruned. It’s been a long while since I’ve been able to glean anything of use from the intermittent BLDGBLOG (I blame Dwell :)… as…