Category: resources
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City Farmer News
City Farmer and it’s ‘Urban Agriculture Notes’ has been around offering great urban agriculture links from Vancouver, BC for a number of years at their old, no-frills site and their demonstration garden. I was pleased to visit recently and see the link to the new blog-ish City Farmer News (added to the BlogCheck) site and…
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Green Roof in a Box?
No it’s not the new SNL Digital Short with JT, but a rant about the commercialization of green rooftops. I usually don’t mince words about ‘packaged’ vegetated systems and my disdain for them as a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s not that I don’t think there’s value in the marketplace for an easier to implement solution. I…
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Transportation and Space
It sounds obvious when you say it (and it has been said many times before) but it is always striking to see how influential modes of transportation are on the shaping of our cities. The magnitude and impacts are immense but also provide a range of new opportunities to explore. The typical figure ground study…
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Urban Ag: The Buzz
If it’s not landscaping on buildings or ecologically planning communities around the globe, it must be the buzz-concept of Urban Agriculture – and it’s had a lot of press lately. A lot of press. And deservedly so – as the new face(s) of agriculture seem to be collecting into teeming masses with some traction towards…
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Veg.itecture #17
There seems to be a significant backlog of Vegetated Architecture examples I will catch up on in the upcoming week. For this version, we will focus on a typology that we featured previously, some abstracted and representational vegetation forms in buildings and artwork. These span incorporation into building structure and form – as well as…
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100: Seeds Revisited
Well, it’s happened eventually. On this auspicious day, we post the 100th entry to Landscape+Urbanism. It has definitely not been too long since I got over my misguided hatred of blogs and got motivated (and inspired by all the others out there) to start my own. So let’s revisit the simple ideas I threw out…
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Reading List: (AD) Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site
This fusion of magazine sized pamphlet/paperback book from Architecutural Design is entitled ‘Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site’ (Wiley, May 2007), and is a really quality investigation into some of the very themes in which I hold dear. I loaned this out and had not had an opportunity to delve into it until now and I was pleased…
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History: Learn, Plan + Re-plan
Ecological planning is not new. In fact elements of the ideaology we often speak about with such fresh energy has been part of the dialogue for some time – but it seems to be constantly reinventied in new and old ways around the world. This post is on the heels of recent projects by OMA…
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Landscape Architecture without LAs
A recent reference on Treehugger pointed me to Bernard Rudolfsky’s 1964 book Architecture without Architects led me to direct this line of inquiry to the landscape profession. Rudolfsky reconnected building with the stability of traditional, ‘non-pedigreed’, design (quoted via Treehugger): “…vernacular architecture does not go through fashion cycles. It is nearly immutable, indeed, unimprovable, since…
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Inhabitat: Façadism
I love new (or old) terms that are evocative of the changing face of architecture. A post in Adaptive Reuse dropped the term facadism, which was new to me. Wikipedia explains: “Façadism (also façadism or façadomy) is the practice of renovating old buildings leaving the facade of a building intact while demolishing and rebuilding its…