Category: Publications
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What is the future of landscape?
I have not finished reading it yet, but I thought that I would share the recent Landscape Futures book written by BLDGBLOG author Geoff Manaugh. The book explores speculations on landscape that touch on how we read as well as intervene in our environment. The methods discussed represent an interest in landscape for measuring, recording…
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Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape
Next month, the Van Alen Institute is launching Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape, a new, multi-year inquiry of competitions, public programs, and research to explore the experience of escape in the urban environment. Elsewhere will guide the Institute’s upcoming competitions, public programs, and research to investigate key questions of the contemporary urban experience: How and why do we…
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Gilles Clement, Entropy by Design and Matthew Gandy
If you haven’t read it already, check out the paper by geographer Matthew Gandy about Gilles Clément’s project in Lille. The paper, Entropy by Design, explores the Parc Henri Matisse in Lille by Clément – the renowned French designer, landscape architect, ecologist and philosopher. Once you have read the paper, and if you happen to be…
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Try the Ecological Urbanism App
What did you think of the Ecological Urbanism book? If you need a reminder or never came across the big red book when it was published there is now an Ecological Urbanism App available. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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Last landscapes in music: Reflections on the film of Ferenc Fricsay
In this ambitious article Joana Avelar Quintas, an MA Landscape Architecture student at the University of Greenwich, explores the associations between music and landscape. Ferenc Fricsay (9 August 1914 – 20 February 1963) was a Hungarian conductor who left us an important cultural heritage: Ferenc Fricsay. Rehearses and conducts Bedrich Smetana’s, Die Moldau. Film. Directed…
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Building the urban forest
Scenario Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, provocations, and design projects that explore the topic of building the urban forest. The forest carries deep cultural significance. Within the urban landscape, this ecologically complex, spatially layered, dynamic system is also understood to perform a wide range of essential ecosystem services, from increasing property values to…
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Reflections on the Amsterdam Bos
In 1999 Anita Berrizbeita published an essay on the Amsterdam Bos park, ‘The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience’. Anna, a MA Landscape Architecture student at the University of Greenwich, reflects on the significance of this article today. Being an ecologist by training and new to the world of…
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New publication from the Landscape Institute
A new publication from the Landscape Institute, ‘Landscape Architecture – A guide for clients’ has been released on iTunes. It contains 38 exemplar projects encompassing housing, regeneration, culture, infrastructure, energy, and health, the Guide highlights the work of landscape architects when it comes to regenerating communities, strengthening social cohesion and creating places of beauty.
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New Capability Brown website launched
A new website has been launched for the Capability Brown 300 Celebration and Festival. The website is sponsored by many of the landowners and interest groups concerned with historic landscapes in England, including: English Heritage, the National Trust and the Landscape Institute.
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New Topos edition on Urban Strategies
The latest edition of Topos is on sale with the focus on urban strategy. The landscape architecture journal that follows different themes each issue includes articles by Chris Reed describing change in Detroit and Herbert Dreiseitl examining green and blue infrastructures. Check it out on the Topos website.
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