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Reading List: The Exposed City – Mapping the Urban Invisibles
If you love maps, not as just as visual artifacts but as part of design and planning methodology, Nadia Amoroso’s recently published ‘The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles‘ (Routledge, 2010) will validate, comfort, and quite possibly amaze you. That’s the effect it had on me – after quickly devouring this visually rich resource –…
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Feral Green Streets
On E. Burnside Street in Portland, the construction of the Burnside-Couch Couplet, a project aimed at ‘humanizing’ the wide arterial that slices through Portland and provides the dividing line between North and South. Construction is ongoing, and as part of the design, the streets on both sides of the couplet have a number of green…
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Calthorpe on Portland…
“…a global model of Transit-Oriented Development.”
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A Perfect Perch
Atop the rooftop chaise lounge at the Sattler Winery in Tadten, Austria by Architects Collective (spotted via Arch Daily) :: image via Arch Daily
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Reslience
A tree at Lime Kiln Point State Park on San Juan Islands. Soon, if this tree has its way – trespassing will again be allowed on this property: (images (c) Jason King – Landscape+Urbanism)
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Island Life
Greetings from sunny, partly cloudy Friday Harbor, where we are taking some late summer refuge from the urban areas of Portland. Life on the San Juan Islands gives one an opportunity to relax and live a more confined life -because you are literally confined with access either via plane, boat, or car (via ferry)… the…
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Reading List: Topos 71: Landscape Urbanism
The conceptual framework of landscape urbanism has evolved from a heady intellectual brew without. In the most recent issue, Topos 71: Landscape Urbanism the topic is first and foremost in the minds of the editors and authors collected within. Featuring essays from the LU stalwarts including Corner, Waldheim, Mostafavi, and Doherty – the content is…
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Elizabeth Caruthers Park
One on the more recent additions to the park inventory in Portland is the neighborhood park for the South Waterfront Area. (see here and here for more on SoWa). The park is named Elizabeth Caruthers Park (after one of the pioneering founders of Portland – on whose original land claim the park now lies) this…
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Disaster Imagery
The Gulf oil spill – documented by Photographer Edward Burtynsky, best known for his fabulous work ‘Manufactured Landscapes‘… capturing the essence of the breadth of disaster and human-wrought destruction. (via Treehugger, more images on the exhibit at the Metivier Gallery). :: image via Treehugger