Landscape+Urbanism

Category: transportation

  • Bell Street Park – Seattle

    A new project recently via the Daily Journal of Commerce unveiled by SvR Design Company in Seattle shows a pair of proposals for Bell Street Park: “The project will affect the area from First to Fifth avenues and create 17,000 square feet of park space. The city is converting one lane of traffic to public…

  • Take Back the Streets 2

    A follow up to the story from Korea and the daylighted stream that was realized upon the removal of a highway, this ephemeral project from San Francisco (via Streetsblog SF) takes the same idea of remnant roadway and thinks of it in terms of gardening: “A few weeks ago in San Francisco, a number of…

  • Take Back the Streets 1

    From Fast Company: “Most metropolis’ are so busy building the future that they don’t have time to re-think the past. Not so with Seoul, South Korea. In 2003, the city demolished a downtown freeway to restore an ancient stream that once flowed beneath the thoroughfare. More than 75% of the scrap material from the demolition…

  • Green Street Video

    Via Causecast, a video about Green Streets in Portland: “Net Green News reports on how Portland Oregon handles their rainfall in a more natural, sustainable way. Portland receives an annual 37 inches of rain per year… and one way to help prevent overflooding of streets and rivers is to build curbside “green streets,” which are…

  • DC Transit Visualization

    Via Urban Tick, a visualization of the Washington DC transit system. “Developed by Rahul Nair in Processing. It is visualised in processing with a data set from WMATA transit system. The transport network has made their dat available trough the open Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS).” Cool representation.Washington D.C. Transit from Rahul Nair on Vimeo.…

  • Hydrological Infill

    As an adjunct to the recent post on the abstract ‘Blue Road’ that attempts to restore in spirit hidden waterways, the inverse process (proposed, but thankfully not implemented) of river removal from in NYC, circa 1924 as a way to alleviate traffic congestion – via Gothamist: “In this issue of Popular Science, circa 1924, there’s…

  • Greenroads

    While the recent explosion of interesting and application of Green Streets is well documented, the announcement of a new program to provide sustainability metrics for Greenroads comes at an opportune time when infrastructure seems to be one of the only things getting funded. From the website (which is still under construction): “Greenroads is a sustainability…

  • 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

  • BEST Parking Lot

    I do love a good pic of James Wines BEST stores (see videos & images here), particularly those blending site with store (or in this case folding program under parking). Something about this dreary gray representation that I just love. :: image via underpaid genius

  • City Limits: Where I Walked…

    One of the inspirations for the Urban Edge is the book City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary by Portland author David Oates. Aside from a great read, David is a fantastic guy and a friend. His recent work as part of the South Waterfront Artist-in-Residence program (which was led by artist Linda K. Johnson, whom also…