Category: sustainability
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NOW Urbanism
In the spirit of the variety of urbanism – some upcoming events from University of Washington in Seattle as part of the Now Urbanism: City Making in the 21st Century and Beyond – a year long interdisciplinary series of speakers around the concept of the modern city. Thanks to Thaisa Way from UW for the…
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More on Ecological Urbanism
A recent post regarding Ellen Dunham-Jones talk in Vancouver highlighted the stance of new urbanism not just on landscape urbanism but on ecological urbanism. Some notes via one of the attendees from – highlights a major disconnect between understanding and rhetoric – particularly that ecological urbanism is focused on some idea of ‘city in nature’ suburbia…
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Landscape Performance Series
Interesting link to the Landscape Architecture Foundation‘s new resource – the Landscape Performance Series – which is sort of an adjust to the Sustainable Sites Initiative which is “…designed to fill a critical gap in the marketplace and make the concept of “Landscape Performance” and its contribution to sustainability as well known as “Building Performance” is…