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The City Is Here For You To Use: 100 easy pieces [Adam Greenfield]
“We find ourselves at a moment in history in which the nature of cities, as form and experience both, is under pressure from a particular class of emerging technology. The advent of lightweight,...
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Under The Surface, Past The Image, and Towards a Conversation: An Interview...
“Getting under the surface, past the image, is something words can do well— and should, if we are to broaden how design is valued.” — Brad Leibin, Trace SF. A common rhetoric of architects, designers,...
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Exploring Philadelphia’s New “Penn Park”
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to stop by Philadelphia and the University of Pennsvylania’s new Penn Park, a 23-acre waterfront park woven in between more than five different infrastructural systems...
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In Response: Are Architects Really The Last People Who Should Shape Our Cities?
Are architects really the last people who should shape our cities? The following is in response to an article published by Jonathan Meades in The Guardian on September 18, 2012, “Jonathan Meades:...
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Las Vegas and the Downtown Project: A Photo Tour
Last week, Tech Cocktail and the Downtown Project invited a small group of tech entrepreneurs, innovators, and city enthusiasts (like Landscape Urbanism) to take a look at the projects and grounds of...
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Exploring Philadelphia Landmarks: At Olin, A Look At North Broad Street...
The stately Divine Lorraine rises ten stories above Broad Street. Originally designed in the 1890s, it closed in 1999 and now sits vacant. Once upon a time, elephants paraded into the Metropolitan...
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Compostmodern 13: Resilience, March 22-23 in San Francisco
What does it mean for design to improve society and the environment? This weekend’s Compostmodern: Resilience conference in San Francisco brings together designers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and...
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Behind the Scenes: Designing Jackson Hill Bridge, The Next Pedestrian Bridge...
What does it take to create a new link within an existing community? For SWA’s Houston designers, they have been hard at work for more than the past decade in creating a city-wide green system of...
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Landscape Strategies for Informal Settlements: Creating Armatures to Shape...
What are the best strategies to deal with informal settlements and the growing populations of urban poor? Previous research on post-informal settlements focused on retroactive strategies that upgrade...
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Call For Submissions: Scenario 5, Building the Urban Forest
Scenario 5: 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...
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