Landscape+Urbanism

Category: revisit

  • Got History?

    Hawthorne & 50th (1936) Aerial View of Portland (1936) My fascination with history and place is no secret.  While i am intrigued with urban history in many forms, there’s always a desire for a connection with the place you inhabit.  Typically this fascination comes via maps, which have been well documented, but the timeline of…

  • Walking the Turtle

    While familiar with the concept of the flâneur, the inquistive wanderer, or  “…detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a gentleman stroller of city streets”.  Reading After the City last night, Lars Lerup, in discussing the idea of the ‘speed’ of the modern metropolis, made a passing reference to a 19th century custom of using a…

  • Revisit: Fremont Troll

    From a recent trip to Seattle, always a good excuse to visit our friend under the bridge. I hadn’t been up there since the roadway was renamed ‘Troll Avenue’… guess it’s easier to find that way and an interesting address to boot. :: image via L+U

  • Representing Motion

    Picking up on the thread of Transect Representation, I recalled that Urban Tick had recently posted a graphic from ‘The View from the Road’ (Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard et al., MIT press, Boston, 1964) – one that I hadn’t previously heard of and sounds somewhat applicable to the idea of representational strategies for movement. ::…

  • More on Plant VOCs

    A follow-up email from Susan McCoy at Garden Media Group offered some follow-up information on the my previous post related to Plants and VOCs (Sept. 6, 2009). My take on it was at least on the right track, unlike some others – but I figure the press release (and upcoming report) is a good opportunity…

  • Video: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

    A great video series on YouTube – featuring ‘The Social Life of Small urban Spaces’ videos (a companion to the book, or is that vice-versa) by William ‘Holly’ Whyte . The content is kind of late Mad Men era (OK it’s the 1970s, but one expects Don Draper to mosey through the shot looking dapper,…

  • Radical Cartography

    A very cool site that was reintroduced to me recently is Radical Cartography, one of the most interesting collections of maps out there (with the exception of maybe the wonderfully oddball collection over at Strange Maps). I had lost touch with the site, after this cool post on Agriculture maps of the US from back…

  • Soundtrack for Spaces?

    A brief lull in posting due to a visit from family, and a kick-ass barbecue last weekend – which culminated in the inaugural usage of the new backyard fire pit. As an aside… this past Friday, we took a short half-day trip to a popular hiking spot in the Columbia River Gorge, with the route…

  • Delirious Detroit: Land of UnReal Estate

    After a brief, work induced break from blogging, I’ve amassed a collection of posts from Detroit, which seems to be getting a lot of attention of late as perhaps the poster child of urban voids. The report that we worked on in last falls SDAT is slowly nearing publication, so definitely check back here for…

  • Earthships to El Monte Sagrado

    Back in the summer of 2005, I had the opportunity to travel for a number of days throughout New Mexico on a dual vacation/educational endeavor (what isn’t educational,I ask?) Whilst digging through images to upload to Flickr, I found a hidden trove photos from that trip as well as some notes for an article I…