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Plant Power
We often discuss the types of ways vegetation can be of benefit to humans – for instance phytoremediation. A few posts that loosely collect into a narrative regarding some unique opportunities to engage plants in our social and environmental structures in inventive ways. The benefits are myriad and wonderful. Read on. Crime PreventionVia Treehugger: “Suginami,…
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Local Flavor: Oregon Sustainability Center
Based in Portland, Oregon I sometimes forget the fact that what we consider everyday is often innovative in the larger global scale. My blog reaches beyond to interject many global ideas into our local work, but also to place what we are doing within a larger ecological design concept. One project worth noting is the…
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The Incredible Shrinking City
In response to a recent post on Detroit, David Jurca from the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) directed me to the very cool Shrinking Cities Institute at Kent State University which “…seeks to examine more sustainable approaches to development and explore the idea of planned shrinkage as an alternative to the quest for continuous growth.”…
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A River Runs Through It…
A kind reader named Chris Keller alerted me to a very cool project in California called Kaweah Falls. From his email: “We just finished a house renovation at the base of the Sequoia National Park in central California that I thought might interest you. A river flows underneath our dining room. Literally, you can watch…
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2009 MoPo Runner-Up of the Year… Sweet!
I wrote, no, begged… in fact, pleaded one year ago to be considered for the MoPo 2008 listings after reading the listing of the veritable who’s who of the architecture-blog world. I am pleased to see that L+U has made the list (I’m not below groveling 🙂 for this years Eikongraphia’s MoPo 2009 – a…
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Urban Chickens Build – 4
For the newly dubbed ‘Chicken Cube’, it’s ecoroof time (at least the structural components sans plants and soil). Here’s a quick summary of Sunday’s flurry of activities: :: 3/4″ plywood frame + cedar siderails :: fitting the metal soil retention edging :: some counterflashing with pond liner :: dry-fitting the liner on edges :: mechanically…
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Detroit: Urbanist Opportunity
An interesting post via the Sustainable Cities Collective from Kaid Benfield asks the provocative question “Is Detroit (the city) a lost cause environmentally? Altogether?” and again makes me wonder why it is that Detroit seems to always get framed in thoughts of negativity, versus thinking of it as a potential opportunity to redefine the way…
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LAM Blog Love
The latest issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine featured an article by Daniel Jost, ASLA, that was nice enough to include our fair blog in it’s pages: “The Dirt on Blogging: How can blogs change the way we communicate about landscape architecture?” offers examples and advice on how landscape architecture professionals can utilize this simple yet…
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DailyLand: INNENHÖFE MAX BILL PLATZ
INNENHÖFE MAX BILL PLATZ asp landschaftsarchitekten > info via Vulgare :: images via Vulgare A paving pattern perhaps only Q*Bert could love… :: image via Wikipedia
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Cause & Effect
Early in my career, I had the great opportunity to work at a firm that specialized in park and recreation planning, which not only gave a fabulous perspective on municipal planning (and reinforced my love of both the large ad the small scale) as well as the inventive use of mapping to illustrate particular schema.…