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Revisit: Fremont Troll
From a recent trip to Seattle, always a good excuse to visit our friend under the bridge. I hadn’t been up there since the roadway was renamed ‘Troll Avenue’… guess it’s easier to find that way and an interesting address to boot. :: image via L+U
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The Blue Road
A link worth checking out is from Dutch artist Henk Hofstra who painted roadways vibrant blue to symbolize hidden watercourses in the 2007 piece entitled ‘The Blue Road’.:: images via Henk Hofstra “In April 2007… a road in Drachten, The Netherlands, is painted blue to symbolise the water. It is 1000 meters long and 8…
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BEST Parking Lot
I do love a good pic of James Wines BEST stores (see videos & images here), particularly those blending site with store (or in this case folding program under parking). Something about this dreary gray representation that I just love. :: image via underpaid genius
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I like the sentiment…
…but something about the tone of this article ‘Landscaping as a Seductive First Step’, from the NY Times Blog is a bit off-putting. Not sure if it was the reference to ‘landscaping’ in the title (it’s kind of nit-picky but a gross simplification), the reference to Weiss/Manfredi as landscape architects (no disrespect meant at, I…
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FOOD inc.
The beauty of being taken down by illness is the opportunity to lay on the couch and catch up with some movies that have been in the queue. One such film was FOOD inc., a documentary that provided a concise summary of the content of Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma –…
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City Limits: Distance from the Center
As a follow-up to the exploration of the introduction to David Oates’ book City Limits I wanted to write a bit about the first essay in the book, entitled ‘Distance from the Center’, which seems appropriate as a quick take on this thing we call the Urban Growth Boundary as well as the dynamic of…
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City Limits: Where I Walked…
One of the inspirations for the Urban Edge is the book City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary by Portland author David Oates. Aside from a great read, David is a fantastic guy and a friend. His recent work as part of the South Waterfront Artist-in-Residence program (which was led by artist Linda K. Johnson, whom also…
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Representing Motion
Picking up on the thread of Transect Representation, I recalled that Urban Tick had recently posted a graphic from ‘The View from the Road’ (Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard et al., MIT press, Boston, 1964) – one that I hadn’t previously heard of and sounds somewhat applicable to the idea of representational strategies for movement. ::…
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Personal Infrastructures
Working on some link house-cleaning and came up with a few posts that seems to thread together in an interesting narrative. The first of this was a beautiful installation for the ‘Flower Street BioReactor’ via Dezeen: “Los Angeles architects Emergent have designed an installation filled with green algae that produce oil by photosynthesis.” This sort…
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A New Year
It’s another year, and of course time to reflect on the previous year (and even decade) while looking forward to the upcoming year. Many changes are in store for the upcoming year, both professionally and with the content of Landscape+Urbanism – which is always a work in progress. Thanks for reading in 2009. :: L+U…