Landscape+Urbanism

Category: urbanism

  • Reading List: Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA

    ‘Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA‘ published in 2011, is edited by the Infrastructure Research Initiative of SWA including Los Angeles office principals Gerdo Aquino and Ying-Yu Hung.  This is supplemented with contributions from Charles Waldheim, Julie Czerniak, Adriaan Geuze, Matthew Skjonsberg and Alexander Robinson.  While ostensibly about landscape infrastructure, this type of book is…

  • 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…

  • Pruitt Igoe Now

    Another good ideas competition, Pruitt Igoe Now the infamous St. Louis housing complex that was demolished in 1972 and considered one of the touchstones in the ‘death’ of modernism.  The site is typical of the towers in the park ideal most notably ascribed to public housing and derived from version of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City…

  • Greatest Grid

    An interesting competition I am ruminating on proposing for, The Greatest Grid – from the Architectural League of New York along with the Museum of the City of New York – seeks ideas related to the grid and to reflect on the role of the grid, now 200 years old, impacts and shapes New York,…

  • 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…

  • RBC: Notes on the Third Ecology | Kwinter

    Notes on the Third Ecology | Sanford Kwinter Kwinter used the dichotomy of city/nature, rooting in our historic perceptions that evolved in the Industrial era.  As mentioned, this concept is characterized by a time “…when immense upheavals in social, economic, and political life transformed the very landscape around us and our relationship to it irreversibly…

  • RBC: Urban Earth: Mumbai

    Urban Earth: Mumbai  |  Raven-Elison & Askins Urban Earth, with studies in Mumbai, Mexico City, and London:  Their approach: “walking across some of Earth’s biggest urban areas, to explore their spatial realities for the people who live there and challenge dominant media discourses regarding the places in which most of us now live.  The idea…

  • RBC: Mumbai on My Mind | Bhabha

    Mumbai on My Mind: Some Thoughts on Sustainability   |  Homi Bhabha :: Mumbai Slum – image via Lost & Found “It is always too early, or too late, to talk of the ‘cities of the future.’ (78) Bhabha uses this essay to frame the idea of sustainability and innovation, mentioning that “Any claim to newness,…

  • The Red Brick Chronicles – ‘Advancement verus Apocalypse’ by Rem Koolhaas

    As I mentioned in the recent reckoning of the L+U blog, I wanted to focus on a number of recent texts that I’ve had the chance to delve into (by disconnecting myself from the nefarious teat of the RSS feeder)  Of significance is finally getting around to expanding on the initial readings of the book…

  • 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…