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One the most fascinating passages of the book 'The Infrastructural City' was the chapter on oil production that still existed in a variety of forms throughout the urban form. The fabulous Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) has done some investigations, which are captured on a post ...
Building/Design
Richard Land
A provocative image found in an email from the local Audubon Society email offers the visual of 'As We Found Them... As We Leave Them', a Jay “Ding” Darling cartoon from 1923, as a statement about the state of our rivers in the face of urbanization. The reason for the email was an upcoming ...
Building/Design
Another book that engaged me on my hiatus from blogging is one I picked up on somewhat of a whim as it looked like a fascinating read. I wasn't d isappointed, as 'Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments" by David Gissen , quickly became impossible to put down. The reason? It really tackles ...
Building/Design
From AnArchitecture , quoting an article from Inside PR . " I actually hate billable hours. Don’t get me wrong – I like working – I really like bringing in the money.. but I just don’t like tracking every minute of my time – especially when it comes to multi-tasking and working on more than ...
Building/Design
The question of the efficacy of the grid system is continually in teresting, and there have been some interesting conversations about this with a range of folk s locally. Another resource to throw some information into this discussion is the recently released background documents in support of ...
Building/Design
Early last week, on the heels of the Sustainable Sites Initiative updated system launch, the International Living Building Institute offered the updated version of the Living Building Challenge, v2.0 - which offers a comprehensive building rating system for not just green, but regenerative ...
Building/Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
An interesting article in Planetizen called "Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland" investigates one of the unique, frustrating and beloved quirks of Portland. This is, our slicework of 200 foot square blocks... making for a lot of roads, and development of tiny blocks. It's our ...
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One of the major 'big ideas' of our Integrating Habitats competition, or the idea of reinventing suburbia in general, is the reduced parking need over time - and what to do with the leftover paved areas. An article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows this idea isn't merely peak oil ...
Building/Design
The fabulous RMIT based journal KERB has recently announced a new competition called PlastiCity FantastiCity , to envision a new urbanism. From the site: "The competition re-envisions city systems to explore fantastical opportunities that enable groundbreaking and fun projects which shake the ...
Building/Design
From some sneak peeks of the latest update to the Sustainable Sites Initiative ( more from L+U here ), I was both excited about the next iteration and establishment of more rigorous set of criteria, and a bit curious how it was going to maintain some of the necessary distance, inclusivity and ...
Building/Design
I had the opportunity today to see a presentation by local urban agriculture guru Marc Boucher-Colbert (the man behind the Rocket Restaurant rooftop garden here in Portland). Instead of focusing directly on rooftops, he outlined a broad version of urban agricul ture through an investigation of ...
Building/Design
In the blogosphere, this is old news now. It's been a week since I heard about the death of landscape architectural icon Lawrence Halprin - actually the day after while in a meeting where part of the topic was discussing the iconic nature of his park sequence in Portland as inspiration for a ...
Building/Design
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, ...
