Category: resources
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Grey to Green: Action?
I mentioned previously the announcement of a proposal by Portland City Commissioner (and mayoral candidate) Sam Adams for ‘Grey to Green’… after an epic roll-out – there has been little talk since. Well that has changed in a flash with another big invite to City Council for an event this week to take some action.…
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Earth Day: BYOBlue
One week from today – another yearly affirmation of the trend towards sustainability. So what color best signifies Earth Day? Well, as previously mentioned, there will be a severe shift in the environmental movement away from the color green – as it is has become a cliche. I still don’t buy it – but as…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt.3: Restoration
We complete this aqueous journey (don’t you love when something simple turns into something wonderful?) and we end with some brutal reality and some hope as to our ability to turn the tide of our technological wrong-doing. I would posit that perhaps the most compelling reading of the year so far in landscape architecture were…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt. 2: Provision
Picking up on a previous thread about Water – we deal with a bit more applicable material to large- and landscape-scale interventions and systems. A few of my favorite blogs – BLDGBLOG, Pruned, and Treehugger offered a variety of recent material regarding water – its provision and perhaps with some more time and luck, (and…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt. 1: Use/Reuse
Water is obviously something we rely on for a number of things beyond mere existence. At the root of water, however, is it’s ability to sustain us both physically and spiritually. It’s disheartening then to see how much we take this for granted, or exploit and destroy this seemingly ubiquitous (yet actually very precious) resource.…
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Auroville
I previously focused on the work of Ecocity World Summit 2008 speaker Ken Yeang with this history of bioclimatic design and vegetated architecture. From this post, I recently recieved a heads up about another of the conference speakers, Lalit Bhati, and the community of Auroville – a perhaps too-good-to-be-true but still evolving along slice of…
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Arcology
A recent helpful commenter to a previous post corrected my erroneous assuption as to the roots of the word ‘Arcology’. Alas, it was not from Sim City as I was previously led to believe. The concept is most commonly associated with Arcosanti builder Paolo Soleri, but has some interesting heritage and implications for some of…
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Bat-Yam = Landscape Urbanism
A recent reference reminded me to post something about the Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, beginning April 13th, 2008. A summary via Archinect: “This international event will present 30 outdoor rooms in the public domain. All sites will be open to the public and introduce innovative ways for using urban open spaces, integrating community…
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Design for Good
Ok, this is two posts from CNN in the span of a couple of weeks. And I don’t actual watch CNN, except for when trapped in an airport with the constant 10 minute new cycle. But this one is pretty impressive for major media outlet… Principal Voices is a ongoing series of discussion and dialogue…
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Vertical Farming: In Depth
I have a fascination with Urban Agriculture, more recently so due to the strategies that are being considered for implementation that either maximizes production per land acre, or maximizes the amount of acres used in the City for ephemeral or permanent farm operations. A recent post by WebUrbanist, ‘5 Urban Design Proposals for 3D City…