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Farm Detroit"Acres of vacant land are eyed for urban agriculture under an ambitious plan that aims to turn the struggling Rust Belt city into a green mecca."
Meeting Mike DavisCity of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, Prisoners of the American Dream... Mike Davis is a very accomplished and fascinating author, artist, urban theorist, human being, who seems to look right into your soul with this intense gaze he gives you during a conversation. Orhan took a gander at El Cajon with the man...
A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect CityMusician and arm-chair--make that cycling--urbanist David Bryne weaves together a fantasy metropolis.
Sustainable Urban Development Resource GuideThe ASLA has created a new online resource guide on sustainable urban development.
Multi-purposed spaces--the next generationConsidering how urban space can be put to use in idle hours. Two restaurants--one space, etc.
Like a record, baby, right round round roundWhy American drivers should learn to love the roundabout, dead or alive... ahem.
25 Years of Growth in Las VegasNASA satellite photos show the sprawling growth of Vegas over the last 25 years. Holy crap!
An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking ItFlint, long the poster child for rust-belt urban decline, is closer to accepting the inevitable--amputate to save its own life. A plan of contraction will reduce strain on city budget, lessen blight, and hopefully create a smaller, more sustainable city.
'Ecological Urbanism' - exhibit at Harvard GSD...including a smelly (or should I say "smelling") display of air samples from 200 neighborhoods in Mexico City by artist Sissel Tolaas. "TALKING NOSE" is only one of dozens of exhibits in the show which runs through May 17.
Ah, Detroit"An icon of the failed American city." Be sure to check out the sublime slideshows: one by photographer Sean Hemmerle, and the other by French photographers by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.
What the Stimulus Bill Really Means for CitiesBlah, blah, blah, stimulus. Yadda, yadda, yadda, economy. Nah, nah, nah, billions.
Portland is America's "unhappiest" city. Blame it on the rain?Oh goody... another subjective ranking list. Love these. Why 21? I guess they had to make sure Seattle made the cut.
Marsupial Pedestrian BridgeAn urban invervention by La Dallman Architects in Milwaukee transforms the space beneath an existing viaduct, creating both a destination and means of connection between neighborhoods.
Bypass UrbanismA thesis project by Rice University student Viktor Ramos "takes a formal approach to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by studying mechanisms of control within the West Bank." The Oslo Accords extrapolated into architectural form.
Are the British any good at designing public space?Landscape architect Martha Schwartz says NO! Then Sarah Gaventas is pissed off by Martha's American attitude and throws down saying she is out of touch! Oh, no she didn't!!! Let's get them in the same room and post the cat fight on YouTube... who's with me?
A city made of waste"The international border between the United States and Mexico at the San Diego-Tijuana checkpoint is the most trafficked in the world..." Teddy Cruz took some of us at LL on a tour of this area when we were his students, and it was mind-boggling...
A Babylon of SignsWhere should signage, indeed information overload, be allowed and where should it be restricted (if at all)? What do we, as designers want the environment to look and feel like?
Rethinking the InterstateWhat if we used our 46,000 miles of highway as the backbone of a new 21st-century infrastructure?
How the city hurts your brain...And what you can do about it"...Scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes." D'OH!
Mapping the InaugurationAs someone who will be in DC during the Inauguration (and not particularly glad about it) I found this to be pretty interesting. I have undertaken my own mapping excercises in preparation... though not quite on this scale (my wife would kill me if I took up the whole floor of the living room).
Stripped Malls"There's going to be a massive sea change in the retail landscape," which will in turn lead to a change in the urban/suburban landscape.
Building Under Peril"Nature will always challenge developers, but landmark studies of wildfire in California and flooding along the Mississippi are showing new ways of living in America’s most dangerous regions."
What Does Your City Say About You?Don't know, don't care actually... lost interest in the article before I read it. Friday afternoon... ya know.
Let Malibu BurnAn old(er), but relevatnt (every several years due to the natural ecology) "political history of the Fire Coast" by Mike Davis.
Sweden's green utopia"This new Stockholm suburb demonstrates how simple, robust, centralised systems can outperform flashy designs bristling with turbines."