Category: resources
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Source: Axioms for Reading the Landscape – Lewis
Doing some readings of seminal texts for an upcoming essay/book chapter on landscape urbanism, and want to capture some of the content, at least in fragments. ‘Source’ will be the code for snapshot of a particular essay – not a thorough review but an abstract and some specific reflections. In this case the instructive ‘Axioms…
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URBAN REALITY: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge
[note: the previous post for LU 72 HR Urban Action has evolved into the following, thus the update at the behest of the organizers] URBAN REALITY: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge invites teams to design and construct a site in response to a brief in just three days. The challenge aims to bring together…
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New Blogs
As I mentioned, there is a virtual explosion of blogs covering topics of landscape and urbanism… meaning my reading list at one point topped 150 sites. As I steadily pared this down (right now I consistently read only 3 feeds along with some targeted google alerts), I found much more time to actual read books,…
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Waldheim – LU Video
Say what you will about this crazy debate, I finally took an hour to watch this, and its a pretty interesting introduction to landscape urbanism. Looking forward to seeing the CNU presentation and discussion – anyone know if that’s going to be posted? 2010 – Charles Waldheim from College of Arts & Architecture on Vimeo.
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1 million visitors
My blogging has tapered off recently due to going to school and running my business – but it’s still exciting to see the overall number of visitors going over 1 million, which is a wonderful landmark for the site. I’m definitely always looking to adapt and adjust the site for maximizing my understanding of landscape…
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Kunstler on Landscape Urbanism
James Howard Kunstler joins the LU/NU ‘debate’ with a completely Kunstlerian commentary with some rhertorical tidbids like LU displaying “a complete lack of interest in the basic components of urban design”… “incorporates lots of high tech ‘magic’ infrastructure for directing water flows and requires massive, costly, complex site interventions” and is “…against density and vehemently…
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Reading the Landscape: A Reference Manifesto
As mentioned previously we are fully engaged in a group reading of the Landscape Urbanism Reader, edited by Charles Waldheim, and as promised, are providing some brief synopses of what transpired in the previous weeks dialogue are regular intervals. Our first week was a soft launch, allowing folks to introduce themselves to the group, and…
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LU Conference in the Central States
I just received this announcement of a conference sponsored by the ASLA Central States Chapter entitled “Landscape Urbanism: Economics of Healthy Communities” – (a remarkably odd title imho, but) including keynote speakers Andres Duany, John Crompton, and Brad McKee… topic session submittals are due tomorrow so late notice, but the conference itself is on May…
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Got Something to Say?
Landscape Urbanism is looking for essays, thoughts, ideas + innovative aproaches to landscape urbanism. We are looking for unique approaches to defining, understanding, communicating, and practicing landscape urbanism. Clarity of writing and communication are imperative. If you had to explain landscape architecture or landscape urbanism to the public, how would you describe it? Why does…
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Some LU Definitions
A great resource for those looking for clarification on some of the terminology around Landscape Urbanism on the New Urban News. A number of key terms and concepts (as well as their originating authors) are included, including: “Analog Ecologies: Projects that attempt to model, analogously, the responsive behaviors of living systems in nonliving constructions or…