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Urban Cartography
There are some interesting links I’ve stumbled upon recently (a round-up of which is forthcoming), one worth some exploration is a site entitled Urban Cartography. The posts simply show collected imagery of a variety of informatics and other interesting mashups of data from around the globe. Not mapping in the traditional sense, these densely woven…
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On Weather
Via InfranetLab, a fascinating book that looks interesting is entitled ‘-arium: Weather + Architecture’ spawned from a research investigation at the University of Toronto. With a cursory glance, it looks to be something of the same genus (at least in overall ideology) to that of Gissen’s recent book Subnature – which provides a focus more…
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Terrain Vague
Via Death by Architecture, a recent call for papers for Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention features an opportunity for work to be included in: “This collection of essays will focus on terrain vague—marginal, semi-abandoned space in or along the edge of the city—as abstract concept, specific locale, and subject of literary, architectural,…
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DC Transit Visualization
Via Urban Tick, a visualization of the Washington DC transit system. “Developed by Rahul Nair in Processing. It is visualised in processing with a data set from WMATA transit system. The transport network has made their dat available trough the open Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS).” Cool representation.Washington D.C. Transit from Rahul Nair on Vimeo.…
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Fringe Urbanism
Not a variation of my favorite new FOX series, but a lecture happening tomorrow at University of Oregon Department of Architecture in Portland at the White Stag. FRINGE URBANISMUNTAPPED POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE SUBURBSLecture by Nico Larco, Asst. Professor, UO Department of Architecture Noon, Wednesday January 20 White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch, Event Roomwith Live…
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Hydrological Infill
As an adjunct to the recent post on the abstract ‘Blue Road’ that attempts to restore in spirit hidden waterways, the inverse process (proposed, but thankfully not implemented) of river removal from in NYC, circa 1924 as a way to alleviate traffic congestion – via Gothamist: “In this issue of Popular Science, circa 1924, there’s…
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Urban/Rural – Helvetia Part 1
Another recent piece ‘Pushing the Limits’ comes via the ‘Slow Issue’ of GOOD magazine and looks at the anti-growth policies of which we are well known regionally. It’s a good piece about the current ‘dialogue’ about urban and rural reserves and relevant to the work we are doing for the ‘Urban Edge’ class. :: image…
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Picture Perfect
Check out the article in todays Oregonian authored by The Urbanophile himself Aaron Renn, entitled ‘Picture Perfect Portland’ explores if our fair city is worthy of the praise it receives on a regular basis. The verdict… sure, with a few caveats. :: image via Oregon Live Many of us in Portland don’t have illusions of…
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From Mowing to Growing
Via BLDGBLOG, a competition announcement about one of the most intriguing competitions recently. This one investigates the ideas related to food and urban agriculture, the hot topic of the last year. One Prize is Organized by Terreform 1 with a subtheme: “From Mowing to Growing is not meant to transform each lawn into a garden,…