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Anne Whiston Spirn Lecture in Portland
An upcoming lecture by Anne Whiston Spirn entitled Restoring an Urban Watershed: Ecology, Equity, and Design will be happening on Monday, January 23rd, from Noon to 1pm at the Portland Building, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue – Second Floor, Room C. The brownbag is free and open to all. Here’s a synopsis. The West Philadelphia Landscape…
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Soundtrack for Spaces – Next Generation
I have discussed the concept previous posts on the ‘Soundtrack for Spaces’, where I was making connections between physical locations in the landscape and the potential to imbue place with appropriate musical accompaniment. These varied, but included looking at the Fleet Foxes as driving music in the Columbia River Gorge, the video customization for Arcade…
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Siftings: 01.11.12
““All great art is born of the metropolis.” – Ezra Pound :: image via NY Times A great little snapshot on urban serendipity from the NY Times that looks at the accidental ‘curation’ of spaces that the urban environment yields, such as the framed view from the subway to the Brooklyn Bridge. Perhaps the uniformity…
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Siftings 01.06.12
Another round of Siftings from the past couple of days. Starting off with a couple of Occupy-related posts, including a great article from Saskia Sassen and Hans Haacke from Artforum entitled ‘Imminent Domain‘. The first sentence – “OCCUPYING IS NOT THE SAME as demonstrating…” points out a recent and annoying trend of calling any sort…
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Community Growth: Crisis and Challenge
Via Atlantic Cities, an interesting film from 1959 exploring the implications for sprawl… from the National Association of Home Builders and the Urban Land Institute. I particularly like the diagrams of the monocentric city towards polycentric city form in post WWII United States. The solutions include planned unit developments, cluster developments, townhouses, culs-de-sac, separation of…
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Siftings 01.04.12
A veritable log-jam of links worth checking out, so I thought I’d drop a few of them on folks – worth checking out for sure. To start, John King of the Chronicle takes us on a tour of ‘parklets’ in San Francisco, or what is essentially Rebar’s Parking Day in a more permanent iteration… I’d…
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What is the Nature of Your City?
Across the world, cities are bringing back nature to help address urban challenges. We are healthier when we are closer to nature. We have a greater respect for the environment that sustains us. We are more adaptable to change when we let nature do its work. Join us for a free presentation by Dr. Timothy…
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THINK.urban – Infographic: Portland, King of Bikeopolis
Cross Posting from THINK.urban (12/20/11): A simple variation on the biking infographic from yesterday, this animated version from GOOD shows how Portland leads in the bike wars, just barely, between US cities for percentage of commuters by bike.
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THINK.urban Infographic: Bicycling, the Present and Future
Cross Posted from THINK.urban: A nice one from Sustainablog, with some juicy facts about biking today (and tomorrow). Graphic produced by WellHome.
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THINK.urban: Introducing Megapolitanism
A recent article from John King at the San Francisco Chronicle mentioned the concept of using the Megalopolitan scale for planning purposes. The article references the new book by Arthur C. Nelson and Robert E. Lang entitled ‘Megapolitan America: A New Vision for Understanding America’s Metropolitan Geography‘ (APA, 2011). As an example, King mentions the…