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Urban Ag-gregations
Nothing is more hot this year than the idea of urban agriculture in it’s many forms. Perhaps due to the economic downturn or maybe just a natural extension of our new found urban ecologic sensibility that includes urban agriculture at the highest levels – there is not shortage of the wonderful and the questionable in…
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Reading List: Learning from Las Vegas
:: Logorama by H5 – image via Designboom :: (color plate from the book) It is one of those books that everyone should read at some point, so I finally got around to sitting down and busting through the entirety of my copy of Learning from Las Vegas by Venturi, Scott-Brown and Izenour. Strangely enough,…
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New York Day/Night
Another interesting map, this time showing the difference in population from daytime to nightime – showing the major exodus that happens when the workday is finished. Via People and Place > The Pop-Up City > The Urbanophile “…an interesting graphic that gives insight in the huge differences between New York’s day and night population density…
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Detroit Vacancy
Another interesting visual on Detroit – this time from the The Detroit News – on the preponderance of vacancies in the CBD: “While there is no official ledger of empty buildings, The Detroit News identified 48 major structures with no outward signs of life in the Central Business District, which covers about 127 blocks. Others…
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Park(ing) Day
One month to go… should be the best ever. We are joining the folks up in Seattle from People’s Parking Lot(s) as they take over a parking lot and transform it into Central Park(ing) with festivities, designs, small businesses, renewable energy, a design charrette and more. We shall see how many goodies we can pack…
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Future Pastoral
Beautiful images via BLDGBLOG from some work by Nathan Freise that remind me of the wonderful techno-aesthetic urban imagery of LTL and Lebbeus Woods, with a bit of Andrew Wyeth thrown in for good measure. Amazing stuff. :: image via BLDGBLOGSome info: “Freise’s series of inkjet prints depict experimental architecture projects. His hybrid illustrations combine…
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LEED Sustainable Sites
I was fortunate enough recently to be chosen for the US Green Building Council’s Technical Assistance Group for Sustainable Sites (SS TAG). This appointment will allow me to be directly involved in defining how sustainable site strategies are integrated in existing determinations and future iterations of various LEED rating systems. The following is an interview…
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Urbanism for Expanding Cities
My friend and colleague Brett Milligan and I were fortunate enough to have an article published in ‘Landscape Architecture China’ a new journal that recently published its second issue covering Landscape Urbanism. Our article titled ‘Urbanism for Expanding Cities: Designing the conjugal interface of contrasting systems’ outlined the urban frameworks that were key to our…
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Modern Industry
Cool image via People and Place > Poster Cabaret: Modern Industry by Adam Hancher: “…print is based upon communication within modern industry, and the relevance of renewable energy sources”:: image via Poster Cabaret
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DailyLand: Pier 57
This project has been around the blogs lately, and it’s an interesting meshing of site and architecture – driven by the unique opportunity of creating space atop a pier in New York City. Via Bustler, the team includes LOT-EK, with developer Young Woo & Associates The project “…foresees a rooftop park crowning a small shopping…