Landscape+Urbanism

  • Ecologies of Gold

    Brilliant study of the meshing of urbanization and gold mining in Johannesburg, South Africa by Dorothy Tang and Andrew Watkins (on Design Observer).  As mentioned in the article and accompanying photo essay;  “ In particular, the 80-kilometer mining belt between the two cities is riddled by deep-shaft mines, where companies built an extensive network of…

  • LU Conference in the Central States

    I just received this announcement of a conference sponsored by the ASLA Central States Chapter entitled “Landscape Urbanism: Economics of Healthy Communities” – (a remarkably odd title imho, but) including keynote speakers Andres Duany, John Crompton, and Brad McKee… topic session submittals are due tomorrow so late notice, but the conference itself is on May…

  • Got Something to Say?

     Landscape Urbanism is looking for essays, thoughts, ideas + innovative aproaches to landscape urbanism. We are looking for unique approaches to defining, understanding, communicating, and practicing landscape urbanism. Clarity of writing and communication are imperative. If you had to explain landscape architecture or landscape urbanism to the public, how would you describe it? Why does…

  • Some LU Definitions

    A great resource for those looking for clarification on some of the terminology around Landscape Urbanism on the New Urban News.  A number of key terms and concepts (as well as their originating authors) are included, including: “Analog Ecologies: Projects that attempt to model, analogously, the responsive behaviors of living systems in nonliving constructions or…

  • American Dream Survival Guide

    An interesting project by David (d.e.) Sellers, called ‘American Dream Survival Guide‘ offers a series of podcasts with a goal to “…spread information and propagate solutions and cooperation to tackle the challenges that face the U.S. in the 21st century”   The project is produced by Explore Lab Radio from the faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and…

  • The Deconstructed City

    Amazing new maps from an L+U favorite, Strange Maps, featuring ‘A Taxonomy of City Maps:  “Imagined cities built from the fragments of real ones: something similar is happening in Tout bien rangé, a cartography-based artwork by French artist Armelle Caron. It consists of a series of map pairs, one a blind, but recognisably real city…

  • Brief Thoughts on Binary Thinking

    The on-going debate on LU/NU is interesting less for any content (of which there has been little beyond posturing and uninformed rhetoric), and more than its continuation of a history of binary discussions between oppositional actors that has occurred in many arenas, including a long history within urbanism and design.  Lest we think there is…

  • Reading, Thinking, Observing: A New Direction for L+U

    Forgive my self-indulgent post, but my lack of blogging is not an indication of lack of thinking (and walking) – as my attention has shifted from following the various blogs (i used to follow many, and now have reduced this to around a dozen) and their myriad paths of discussion towards a more rigorous engagement…

  • Guest Post: The Human Benefits of Green Building

    by Krista  Peterson While it may initially seem like the only benefits of “green building” efforts go to the environment – at the cost of human comfort and expense – this is not the case. Proponents of eco-friendly architecture take a holistic approach to the concept of environmental health, including human well-being in their calculations.…

  • Walking the Turtle

    While familiar with the concept of the flâneur, the inquistive wanderer, or  “…detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a gentleman stroller of city streets”.  Reading After the City last night, Lars Lerup, in discussing the idea of the ‘speed’ of the modern metropolis, made a passing reference to a 19th century custom of using a…

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