Landscape+Urbanism

  • Reading List: Beyond No. 1

    Perfect airplane fare, on a recent trip I had an opportunity to borrow Beyond No. 1, entitled Scenarios and Speculations, featuring a range of short stores on the ‘post-contemporary’, edited by Pedro Gadanho. An interesting idea, the slim volume takes a different tack: “…dedicated to new, experimental forms of architectural and urban writing, a bookazine…

  • You Can Go Home Again

    Well not exactly home, but a wonderful trip last week, back to my alma mater North Dakota State University for a presentation on my favorite topics – Landscape + Urbanism + Veg.itecture. Thanks to everyone that attended the lecture and for the great conversation before, during, and after. Fargo has changed a lot, but remarkably…

  • Bilbao Jardín Garden

    A wonderful addition to the International Urban Garden Competition “Bilbao Jardín 2009”, by Diana Balmori of New York-based Balmori Associates and a design that literally ‘climbs the stairs’ with a undulating vegetated strip and cor-ten walls splaying out in a wider planter at the lowest landing. :: image via Bustler – Photo: Iwan BaanSome of…

  • Terragrams

    Just when I think Twitter is a roiling mass of wasted time and energy, I get a link or two that make me reconsider. One of these, spotted by @landmatters is for a site that obviously has been under my radar called Terragrams – an ongoing podcast series for landscape architecture hosted by landscape architect…

  • More on Plant VOCs

    A follow-up email from Susan McCoy at Garden Media Group offered some follow-up information on the my previous post related to Plants and VOCs (Sept. 6, 2009). My take on it was at least on the right track, unlike some others – but I figure the press release (and upcoming report) is a good opportunity…

  • FLYP Media – High Line

    A reader pointed me to a new online magazine entitled ‘FLYP’ which takes the idea of new media to a level. that isn’t just an electronic display of the content but a more interactive idea of content. A recent article about Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and their work with Field Operations on the High Line.…

  • McDs as Density Indicator

    It’s interesting to make connections between mapping and healthy communities. In this case it’s not just health in terms of people (such as this correlation between parks and obesity) – but factoring in local business, access to fresh/healthy food, and even the idea of non-drive through oriented business. The always fantastic Strange Maps offers a…

  • Reinventing Cities Winners

    The finalists for the Reinventing Cities competition have been announced. This open ideas competition was aimed at reinvisioning ‘new urban infrastructures’. It’s hard to tell too much about the entries themselves w/o any appreciable explanatory text to accompany them, but some views of the graphics. I hope we can get more detail about the entries…

  • Best of… the Rest

    Well, finally back at it after a bit of time off and some flurry of activity around Parking Day 2009. More to come on our ‘award winning’ most playful entry to the Seattle People’s Parking Lot, and the beauty of oversized Connect Four – and stay tuned for more posts upcoming. :: 4-Play – image…

  • Large Parks

    In the spirit of one of the finest collections of writing on parks (and landscape urbanism) ‘Large Parks’ (edited by Czerniak & Hargreaves) a recent post on The Infrastructurist catalogs 10 of the world’s greatest large parks. “We thought it would be fun to take ten of the world’s largest, most famous, and most beautiful…

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