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Re: Iskandar – Asia’s newest megacity or a cookie cutter template for cities?

Jordanp8888 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:43:52 -0000

Agreed..!! I have yet to see a well thought out plan for a future city that incorporates all the monitoring and control systems that allows for organic growth or change... most planning is driven by economic or political factors...there are many examples of failed cities that have been planned. Brazillia is one..!! Our set designers for sci fi movies seem to do a better job ...perhaps we should look at star wars, blade runner, fifth element and other sci fi sets for inspiration and cookie cutter examples. Looking at past great cities...some have been planned in response to local and regional context and social and cultural and religious norms, where as others have grown in haphazard uncontrolled fashions. Some great cities like Riyadh have been destroyed by imposition of a 2 kilometre grid and then a freeway spine. In a similar fashion Melbourne has been destroyed by a ring road freeway system around its city core. Dubai in my opinion would have to be the worst city i have ever experienced Unless one owns a car that can take you to the top of Burj Kalifa it is almost impossible to enjoy or use the city. Everything has been designed around the automobile, it is an ugly cacophony of elevated freeways and light rail systems and it only works or looks good at night when one cant see the poor quality construction or poor quality designs. The principle of living/ working and recreating in air-conditioned bubbles that are connected with air-conditioned sewers or personal air-conditioned vehicles is an example of the way of the future...when global warming is uncontrollable and the natural world no longer exists,... the only thing that is missing are air-conditioned indoor parks and beaches, mountains etc, unfortunately one has to go outside sometimes, at present, especially the lower class and middle classes, but perhaps these air-conditioned facilities are on the drawing board to complete the artificial city of the future...I suppose Rome wasn't built in a day..!!

Re: Medellín, Colombia | a city on the rise

Hardwood Medallions — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:24:51 -0000

I don't remember how I found your blog, but for the last two or three years I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Each time my RSS reader would show your blog with new posts it would be one of the first I'd look at. Thanks for taking great pictures and sharing them with the world

Re: Turenscape wins World’s Best Landscape Project at World Architecture Festival Awards 2011

Jose Marin — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:23:20 -0000

Wow I cant believe this used to be a garbage dump. It's beautiful.

Re: Designer for Christchurch CBD rebuild plan announced

Sherryberg — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:06:57 -0000

Congratulations to Boffa Miskell on being appointed! Great team! Sherry

Re: Critics come out against Brooklyn Bridge Park

Jones — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:15:43 -0000

For all of their pretense to be following in the footsteps of William H. Whyte, it seems like the folks at PPS are incapable of objective critique.

Re: Critics come out against Brooklyn Bridge Park

Jason — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:49:54 -0000

So tired of these irrational outcries. But if you suggest Asian examples, he and his entourage will just disparage them as non-Western; European precedents will be labeled as not fitting the American context. You can't can't convince the naysayers that are set to be ideologically against you. You can only influence and hope the greater public think differently.

Re: Aberdeen City Gardens Design Competition

Rogerfontain — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:25:36 -0000

Around' will cripple the city, privatise the city and destroy good. well done Mr R

Re: BMW Guggenheim Lab travelling to 9 cities over 6 years

Austin Scott Brooks — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:44:22 -0000

I just had the opportunity to visit the BMW Guggenheim Lab in NYC...and what a treat that was! If you live in NYC, or plan on visiting anytime soon, I highly recommend checking the lab out. It really is an inventive use of space.

Re: CNU 19 – Landscape Urbanism vs New Urbanism – Video, Blogs, Reports

Monartch at Ridge Hill — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:14:03 -0000

Thanks so much for sharing these new urbanism links! We have also been looking for more information ourselves from the CNU. If we see any more, we will pass them along. The Landscape v. New Urbanism piece looks interesting, we're going to have to check it out. Thanks for sharing, Damian!

Re: Land News 15 Nov 2010

smu email — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:55:48 -0000

great news,very interesting meetup

Re: James Howard Kunstler takes aim at Landscape Urbanist Charles Waldheim

David Sucher — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:10:13 -0000

True, Kunstler was one-sided.
But in this case he happens to be correct.
In fact Kunstler was rather gentle with Waldheim, overly-gentle in fact (and yet I think a bit too harsh with McHarg.)

Re: BNE: Making Connections Design Competition

landscape design — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:12:05 -0000

Architects are really applauding on their designs. One of my prefer
best of what they did is to make landscape designs. So if you want your house
or garden became beautiful, you must find one now.

Re: Problems with Bike Lanes in New York

Plumbing — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:34:21 -0000

Don't you wish you could take all of your bathroom supplies with you when you travel? The shampoo bottles, hand soap, your favorite lotion...But with TSA restrictions, it can be difficult to transport your favorite soapy suds.

Re: Problems with Bike Lanes in New York

unite tyre changer — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:19:30 -0000

This video is really funny. Well, although you have fault there you also have the point. I don't like the way the officer explained that no matter what you should be in the bike lane. This calls for the attention of those people responsible for this stuff. You should know what your people needs and safety. If they would keep on the bike lane they might get into accidents due to those unfinished stuffs in the lane. It should be fixed soon.

Re: CNU 19 – Landscape Urbanism vs New Urbanism – Video, Blogs, Reports

kristenej — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:59:57 -0000

http://liveblog.cnu19.org/ , also http://www.strongtowns.org/...

Re: Light It For Humanity: Design Competition

outdoor hanging lights — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:02:13 -0000

Please give me more information. I love it, Thanks
again.

Re: BIG LANDSCAPE 2020: Student Landscape Institute Council Summer Conference

Brodie McAllister — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:12:10 -0000

I think this will be great

Re: High Line: Brought down to Earth

Paul — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:02:42 -0000

http://www.nathanielpopkin....

Re: Thomas Church: Remembering his Influence and Career

Land8 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:52:01 -0000

Damian, great find!

Re: West8 – Borneo-Sporenburg [VIDEO]

Tobias — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:58:02 -0000

Thank you for putting the film we made for West8 on your website.
We hope you enjoyed it and it's subject.

Kind regards,

Tobias Mathijsen

www.kartonfilms.nl

Re: Lisbon Architecture: Neglect, Conservation, Demolition, Renewal or Urban Art – what are the alternatives?

Pedro Soares Neves — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:34:40 -0000

The article of Mr. Chamberlain doesn't describe the (full) reality.

All the informal graphic appropriation phenomenons (like graffiti meaningless scrawls, posters, stickers...) are strictly unauthorised and cleaned in all Lisbon.

There's going on a very successful (and by all citizens recognised), urban renewal operation since 2008. in Lisbon, Bairro Alto.

This success certainly it's related with a cultural mediation process, that include dialogue, knowledge sharing, and careful interventions (unique).

All this it's part of a well studied and academically back boned urban (meta)project. (Urbanism/ Architecture/ Engineering and Arts Universities, of Lisbon and Barcelona).

In a very general overview, it consists in a (very small percentage) usage of the resources from the urban renewal, to a medium / long term needed dialog between the local citizens and their living environment.

This tendentiously will reduce the costs of maintenance. Lisbon it's learning from the errors of London or Barcelona, that see the expenses related to this issues, increase every year, in a non sustainable rate.

I hope that can be the right opportunity to explain (with the possible detail) the mentioned (meta) project, that in reality goes in the same direction of the Mr. Chamberlain concerns, but in pragmatic (and practical, therefore vulnerable) terms.

Re: Lisbon Architecture: Neglect, Conservation, Demolition, Renewal or Urban Art – what are the alternatives?

Eric Papetti — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:39:17 -0000

I lived there for a year so I share Chamberlain's concern for the city, but I don't see what the graffiti has to do with it - it's a symptom, not the disease. If you're looking at the actual cause of the city's dereliction, try looking at the history of rent control in the city.

In any case, the posters and graffiti in the Bairro Alto are actually pretty fascinating, as they change every day and simply reflect the vibrant neighborhood that it is. It's going on plastered walls, too, which can just be painted over - no permanent harm is being done. And Crono's work is just beautiful.

Re: LU vs NU – more fuel to the fire

Eric Papetti — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:35:42 -0000

Glad to see other people looking at this article. I'm glad to see landscape architecture represented, but wonder if this is the best synopsis of "landscape urbanism" - a quasi-acceptance of lower density urbanism is but a small part of it.