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WPA Video: Local Code / Real Estates
I managed to butcher the announcement of the WPA 2.0 finalists a few weeks back… (which should be up to date now)… and was made aware of it thanks to Ben Golder, one of the team members from the Local Code team. He recently sent me this link to a video of their project. I…
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Suburban Still Life
Another upcoming highlight to our class will include a visit by Linda K. Johnson, a dancer and performance artist most known locally for both the work recently at South Waterfront and the ongoing series of dances that celebrate the local legacy of Anna and Lawrence Halprin and Portland fountains entitle “The City Dance of Lawrence…
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Quest for the Livable City
For an upcoming seminar class that myself and my colleague Brett Milligan are teaching in the Winter Quarter at the University of Oregon Architecture Program here in Portland, I’ve been doing a good bit of research on our local planning. Look for some upcoming posts here and at Brett’s blog FAD on the topic of…
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Where the Revolution Began
The passing of Lawrence Halprin has close ties to an upcoming book that is being released this weekend celebrating his legacy in Portland. This Saturday is a chance to celebrate the legacy of Halprin in Portland, with the release of ‘Where the Revolution Began: Lawrence and Anna Halprin and the Reinvention of Public Space’. On…
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Dos Años
Just a quick not to say thanks to everyone who has followed, commented, supported, linked and read the blog over the past two years. With an unofficial million + pageviews and another almost half-million visits, the experience has far exceeded my expectations (which frankly were minimal).:: image via business card tips As usual, the page…
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WPA 2.0 Student Finalists
As a follow-up to the previous post, the student award finalists were announced as well, including a few of the notables images from some of the entries.“R_Ignite” was designed by four graduate students of the Manchester School of Architecture – Peter Millar, Jamie Potter, Andy Wilde and Stuart Wheeler. This proposal revitalizes port cities and…
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WPA 2.0 Winners
[post corrected on 12.13.09] I have been remiss in posting about the WPA 2.0 competition beyond this initial post way back when… it’s been exciting to see both the professional and student awards coming together into a fabulous compilation on information on the reinvention of public infrastructure. So alas, it was time to capture at…
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Urban Farming Video
The illustrious Will Allen, via City Farmer:
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Urban Crude
One the most fascinating passages of the book ‘The Infrastructural City’ was the chapter on oil production that still existed in a variety of forms throughout the urban form. The fabulous Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) has done some investigations, which are captured on a post in the Places portion of the Design Observer…
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As We Found Them… As We Leave Them
A provocative image found in an email from the local Audubon Society email offers the visual of ‘As We Found Them… As We Leave Them’, a Jay “Ding” Darling cartoon from 1923, as a statement about the state of our rivers in the face of urbanization. The reason for the email was an upcoming hearing…