Category: work
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Integrating Habitats Competition: Urban Ecotones
Well it’s finally official – the announcement of winners and the like for the Integrating Habitats Competition. The celebration was held about a month ago now (Feb 26) and we’ve all been basking in the warm glow of adoration since then… The team and our entry got lot’s of photo ops at the celebration (that’s…
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100: Seeds Revisited
Well, it’s happened eventually. On this auspicious day, we post the 100th entry to Landscape+Urbanism. It has definitely not been too long since I got over my misguided hatred of blogs and got motivated (and inspired by all the others out there) to start my own. So let’s revisit the simple ideas I threw out…
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Stormwater to the Streets
A short while back I was surprised to see in one of my favorite blogs, Pruned, an article entitled: ‘Hyperlocalizing Hydrology in the Post-Industrial Urban Landscape’. For most, is just a hyperbolic hydrologic way of saying, look, green streets! The profile focusses on the award-winning work of Portland’s own Kevin Robert Perry, currently employed at…
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Past Forward: Mannahatta
I may have mentioned my love of historic urban maps. If not, then I will plead guilty here, and offer up Strange Maps as a vital modern contribution to our historical heritage, and let slip fact that I’ve read most of the written works of Mark Monmonier. As objects, maps are fascinating artifacts. Even more…
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Public Farm 1: Work Architecture Company
While aiming not to be redundant with other resources out there, I just really like this project quite a bit, and have to expand on the previous post. ‘Public Farm 1’ is the Young Architects Program at PS 1 Project by Work Architecture Company has been covered extensively by a number of sources: originally the…
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Color Theory
These images on MoCo Loco’s Art MoCo featuring the work of artist Denny McCoy’s simple yet somehow deep paintings of colored bands, jogged my memory of a couple of recent color-related resources that floated by recently. Part photoshop swatch, part Timbuk2 messenger bag – it’s not the composition, but the complement of shades and tones…
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Eco-Planned Communities
It’s not a surprise for those of us in the Pacific Northwest bubble that tend to live and bleed green, but always good to get some positive reinforcement that we’re doing some things right. The latest was in the form of an article in Popular Science magazine, which, through somewhat generalized scoring system, named Portland,…
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Project Promotion, via others
A marketing philosophy I struggle with is the concept of self-promotion (ok, not really). Doing good work and telling the world about it is a natural reaction. It’s easier when others beat you to the punch. Jetson Green seems clued into the great work of the firm which I love (and in the spirit of…
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Flux Paroxysm: A Found Poem
Jumping the shark a bit, but here’s the first part of the found poem from the SoWa endeavors with David Oates, et. al. – enjoy!: II. Flux Paroxysmcomposers: Jason King and Claire Nail Giants movepoliticoshuddled together,a tribein KKK regaliarough pioneers, hard menact out Ahab after vengeanceunhinged by luckdirty quarrel, barks of laughterbones will crackrips of…
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Local Urban Agriculture
I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, as well as continuing my work with a great and inspiring group called Verde, and it has put ephemeral site use and urban agriculture on the brain in some interesting new forms. Verde is a non-profit dedicated to [improving] “…the economic health of disadvantaged communities by creating…