In honor of Frederick Law Olmsted Srs birthday today, April 26 (1822, so lets call it a round 190!), I would remind folks to go out and read more about the man in the great 2011 biography Genius of P...
Im pleased to announce that Landscape+Urbanism will be featured along with some great company as part of the Voices Going Viral Exhibition and event developed by AIANY. More information below....
Hawthorne & 50th (1936)Aerial View of Portland (1936)My fascination with history and place is no secret. While i am intrigued with urban history in many forms, theres always a desire for a ...
I am happy to report that a recent essay was published in Atlantis Magazine, which is published by Polis and collects writings that make "...the link between students, academics and professionals...
Kerb is one of best journals out there for landscape architecture - and you can be part of their next issue around the topic speculative narrative. Heres the call for submissions: KERB 20 IS SE...
I was struck by a recent mis-use of the term landscape urbanism in this article from the Atlanta Journal Constitution on the need for climate change inspired floating homes. Quoting Thai ...
The Porter House project by SHoP Architects doesn’t quite sit right with the eye. GregPasquarelli, one of the founding principals of the New York firm, gave a great lecture at theUniversity of Washin...
The video of the presentation for GOOD Ideas for Cities is up, along with a nice write-up from organizer Alissa Walker from GOOD - so enjoy. Also check out some more detail, and download a PDF of the...
The recent event for GOOD Ideas for Cities happened last week in Portland, and generated some great dialogue. I was also on one of the teams that presented. A short recap. :: custom noteb...
A clip that spawned a lot of conversation within our reading group, from 1990, Diane Sawyer reporting on ABCs Primetime Live, in a series called Detroits Agony - which looks at Mayor Coleman Youngs l...
Arsenal Moving along with the Shrinking Cities readings, the first part of Origins of the Urban Crisis by Segrue recounts the development of the City of Detroit around WWII as the Arsenal of Democrac...
Oh the sick and twisted future... a film from General Motors in 1940 entitled To New Horizons talking about the world twenty years later. Yes indeed, "Man continually strives to replace the...
One of our supplementary readings for the Shrinking Cities group is the recent essay by Jerry Herron on The Design Observer entitled The Forgetting Machine: Notes Toward a History of Detroit. T...
A class this term at Portland State involves a reading and conference on Shrinking Cities. Led by professor Ellen Bassett, a group of a dozen students from PhD and Masters in Urban Studies and Urban ...
An interesting article from the Economist on The Wisdom of Crowds echoes much of the seminal research of William Whyte (City), Edward T. Hall (The Hidden Dimension), and others that have closel...
An upcoming lecture by Anne Whiston Spirn entitled Restoring an Urban Watershed: Ecology, Equity, and Design will be happening on Monday, January 23rd, from Noon to 1pm at the Portland Building, 1120...
I have discussed the concept previous posts on the Soundtrack for Spaces, where I was making connections between physical locations in the landscape and the potential to imbue place with approp...
"“All great art is born of the metropolis.” - Ezra Pound :: image via NY Times A great little snapshot on urban serendipity from the NY Times that looks at the accidental curation of spaces ...
Another round of Siftings from the past couple of days. Starting off with a couple of Occupy-related posts, including a great article from Saskia Sassen and Hans Haacke from Artforum entitled I...
Via Atlantic Cities, an interesting film from 1959 exploring the implications for sprawl... from the National Association of Home Builders and the Urban Land Institute. I particularly like the ...
A veritable log-jam of links worth checking out, so I thought Id drop a few of them on folks - worth checking out for sure. To start, John King of the Chronicle takes us on a tour of parklets i...
Across the world, cities are bringing back nature to helpaddress urban challenges. We are healthier when we are closer tonature. We have a greater respect for the environment that sustain...
Cross Posting from THINK.urban (12/20/11): A simple variation on the biking infographic from yesterday, this animated version from GOOD shows how Portland leads in the bike wars, just barely, b...
Cross Posted from THINK.urban: A nice one from Sustainablog, with some juicy facts about biking today (and tomorrow). Graphic produced by WellHome.
A follow-up on new mapping tools from the author of The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles (read a review of this great book here). Nadia Amoroso alerted me to a new endeavor called Dat...
Filed under random this sculpture was spotted the previous weekend along the waterfront just north of the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. A pile of vegetated cans with the word Purge punched...
An interesting opportunity for the Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies for 2012, which is open to a broad definition of "...an emerging design talent whose work articulates the potenti...
Continuing the thread of review for the new landscape urbanism website, Im discussing The Re-Representation of Urbanism by Gerdo Aquino, SWA Principal as well as educator and author of the book Lands...
So as promised, I was planning on posting on some of the great content related to the initial issue on the Landscape Urbanism website. The introduction by Sarah Kathleen Peck and Eliza Shaw Val...
An interesting aspect of the European journey was the ability not to stay in hostels or hotels, but to live in some of the places that people actually inhabit in these cities. This was done cou...
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