Category: urbanism
-
Perils of Urban Chickens
An amusing proposal from Vancouver BC, which recently allowed urban chickens for single- and multi-family owners after a long-standing ban. Via the Vancouver Sun: “Anticipating a wave of buyers’ remorse, city staff are recommending the city build a special shelter for hens they expect will be abandoned by owners having second thoughts.” I assume this…
-
[Fill in the Blank] Urbanism
I attended a pow-wow recently – aimed at discussing the state of landscape urbanism theory and it’s past, present, and future implications for planning, urban design and landscape architecture. Amongst many other interesting thoughts (more to come on this), one aspect of the conversation that stuck in my brain stuck was the recent (maybe?) upswing…
-
Monu #12 – Real Urbanism
Just when I thought someone couldn’t come up with a more disturbing journal cover than the aforementioned Kerb 17 – the folks at MONU found a way to top this in art for the latest issue on ‘Real Urbanism’ Contents: (browse the entire issue on YouTube) Luxury Space By Jason Lee;The World According to Mr.…
-
FLOW: A Competition
Winners of the international competition „FLOW“ arrived via an email today. The european competition is: “… for students in the last two years of architecture, engineer, art, landscape, town planning, sociology and young architects were born after December 31st, 1975 in Europe.” The subject area of the competition is the City of Brussels, covering the…
-
Smart Wayfinding
A very interesting project spotted on Designboom: “….as part of the lighting plan in montreal, the quartier des spectacles explores the possibilities of light for creating signage and expressing identity. lead by designers ruedi baur and jean beaudoin from montreal architectural design studio intégral, this recent pilot project experiments with projecting light onto the pavement…
-
Piggy-back Big-Box
An interesting hybrid assemblage of big box behemoths in Baltimore, shows a trend away from the sprawling power centers to a more . Via the Baltimore Sun, the development will place a Walmart atop a Lowes store in a piggy-back move: “The new location will be unusual for Walmart because it will be built on…
-
Cartographic Rectification
A recent post at the Fresh Kills Park Blog showed the beauty and function of the process of map rectification in GIS, where a map and image can be combined by matching ground control points in the mapping system to points in the image. As it may be well known, I’m constantly fascinated by historic…
-
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…
-
Paper Cities
Another great video from Digital Urban shows a snippet of ‘Metropolis’ a time-lapse film by Rob Carter showing the evolution of Charlotte, NC: “Made entirely from images printed on paper, the animation literally represents this sped up urban planners dream, but suggests the frailty of that dream, however concrete it may feel on the ground…
-
Food City
Via ArchDaily, this study by MVRDV, The Why Factory and Stroom Den Haag looks at urban farming in the relationship to global food supplies. As David Basulto adds: “…urban farming goes more in the direction of the last phrase of the video: “could it (urban farming) help bringing some agriculture into the cities to bring…