Category: Publications
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Landscape – process or product?
Martha Schwartz and Partners’ new offering raises the question of whether landscape is an ongoing process or a finished product. To commemorate the famous Bagel Garden project (1979) MSP have opened a shop on their website to sell limited edition cast bronze bagels. At $250 a bagel, it does not include shipping or cream cheese.
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Working with floods: leading landscape architecture & urbanism approaches
As the South of England continues to be inundated with storms, The Landscape side-steps the political finger-pointing to present leading initiatives to working with water, projects led by Landscape Architects, Urbanists and Designers. 1. On the Water: Palisade Bay – This research project explores the patterns of storms on the East Coast of the US and their
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How do we build cities?
Jan Gehl presents the Human Scale at London’s Hackney Empire on Thursday. Gigantic systems of high-rise buildings and high ways. Humans who live their life in separate concrete boxes. Life in the cities is modern and enchanting but how do we plan these cities in a way, which takes human behaviour into account? The revolutionary
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Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens
MA student, Aaron Carpenter, takes on Monty Don with pleasant surprise. I was recently sent the Around the World in 80 Gardens BBC series by Monty Don as a birthday present, and instantly thought thanks mum more unwanted gifts I will never get around to using. But started watching it in the background whilst working on
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Unnatural Futures
From genetically modified foods to zombie apocalypse, concerns about the future are increasingly reflected in contemporary media, policy and culture. An unnatural future is being shaped by rapidly escalating anxieties about the social, cultural, environmental and technological risks that now pervade everyday life. This climate of fear and uncertainty about the future requires careful consideration
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Manhattan Timeformations
For those of you who enjoyed yesterday’s post on ExtendedNY, check out the Manhattan Timeformations by Brian McGrath. The commission from the Skyscraper Museum in New York City demonstrates the multi-layered complexity of space and time across the Manhattan grid.
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The Manhattan Grid Expanded to Every Point on Earth
For those of you who miss the exactness of the New York City gridiron you can find your place relative to the grid on the Extended NY website. The website extends the New York City grid of streets across the planet, so you can be in New York while you are also in London. You
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Rising tides and storm surges
Several interesting initiatives where landscape architects have been involved in addressing storm surges and rising tides in Europe and North America: – Facing up to Rising Sea Levels: Retreat, Defend, Attack? – Rising Currents – On the Palisade Bay – Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape Are there any other references anyone can offer? Image: Scape
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Biodesign exhibition in Rotterdam
Living trees support houses and bridges; mushrooms replace synthetic foam for packaging and insulation; leaves grow into decorative patterns inside glass tiles. For a forthcoming exhibition at The New Institute, curator William Myers has selected dozens of projects that illustrate new ways to harness living systems for art, design and production. Biodesign: On the Cross-Pollination of
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Imaginary Cartographies
ELN 52.1 Spring/Summer 2014 “Imaginary Cartographies” Call for Papers: ELN Special Issue, “Imaginary Cartographies.” In recent decades the map has emerged as a key site of cultural and imaginative reworking, and yet the history of such symbolic mediations between humans and their spatial environment is also ancient and complex. Volume 52.1 of ELN (Spring/Summer 2014)
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