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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:15:04 +0100FeedCreator 1.7.2en-usReview: Center 14, On Landscape Urbanism
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<p>Review Forthcoming. </p>Jeff AlexanderTue, 14 Apr 2009 15:31:42 +0100Review: Drosscape. Wasting Land in Urban America
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<p>In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568987137?ie=UTF8&tag=thecon05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1568987137"><em>Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America</em></a>, Alan Berger deals with a particularly interesting and relatively recently emergent classification of space in urban areas: Drosscape. Very generally and loosely defined as waste landscapes, Berger begins by describing the process by which these spaces develop and explains why they result from normal, healthy urban growth. Berger draws from some of the texts that are credited with forming the foundation of the emergent field of landscape urbanism such as Lars Lerup's <em>Stim and Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis</em> and Ignasi de Sola-Morales <em>Terrain Vague</em>. ...Jeff AlexanderTue, 17 Mar 2009 17:53:30 +0100My name is Rob
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<p>Hi Rob! Thanks for joining! And I'm glad you like the site. My hope is that it will grow to become a valuable resource to landscape archtects, and anyone else in the industry for that matter. If you have any input, feel free to let me know!</p>
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<p> </p>Jeff AlexanderThu, 05 Feb 2009 22:31:47 +0100Review: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
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<p>When you first pick up <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0865475873?ie=UTF8&tag=thecon05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0865475873">Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things</a><img height="1" border="0" width="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thecon05-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0865475873" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" />, it's immediately obvious this book is a little different, and not just in the content. The book is very heavy for it's size, and the pages have a texture more like plastic than paper. The reason for this is that the book IS different. It's not made out of paper, rather the synthetic pages are made of plastic resins and inorganic fillers. ...Jeff AlexanderTue, 17 Mar 2009 17:57:07 +0100Review: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How it can Renew America
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<p>Author of best selling <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312425074?ie=UTF8&tag=thecon05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312425074">The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century</a><img height="1" border="0" width="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thecon05-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312425074" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" />, Friedman takes his global expertise and insight to new places with <a href="http://www.amazon. ...Jeff AlexanderTue, 17 Mar 2009 17:57:30 +0100Review: Landscape Urbanism: a Manual for the Mechanical Landscape
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<p>Another influential book on the emergent field of landscape urbanism is Mohsen Mostafavi's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1902902300?ie=UTF8&tag=thecon05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1902902300">Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape</a><img height="1" border="0" width="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thecon05-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1902902300" />. This particular book has more of an architectural influence on it. However there are notable contributions that focus on landscape. <br />
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One such essay is Corner's <em>Landscape Urbanism. </em>Here, Corner presents five themes of landscape urbanism. ...Jeff AlexanderTue, 17 Mar 2009 17:57:55 +0100Review: Designing the High Line: Gansevoort Street to 30th Street
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Few projects</font> have such an interesting evolution that results in such a successful solution. The High Line in New York City is just such a project. On the rare instances in which these projects do occur, it's always exciting to see a publication about the project. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615211917?ie=UTF8&tag=thecon05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0615211917">Designing the High Line: Gansevoort Street to 30th Street</a><img height="1" border="0" width="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thecon05-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0615211917" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" /> is just such a publication. ...Jeff AlexanderTue, 17 Mar 2009 17:58:23 +0100Review: The Landscape Urbanism Reader
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<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568984391?ie=UTF8&tag=thecon05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1568984391">The Landscape Urbanism Reader</a><img height="1" border="0" width="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thecon05-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1568984391" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" /> (edited by Charles Waldheim) is a collection of essays from some of the founders and foremost practitioners of the emergent field of landscape urbanism. Being a collection of essays as opposed to a comprehensive manifesto, the book runs the risk of coming across as an incongruous and haphazard pastiche of divergent thoughts. ...Jeff AlexanderTue, 17 Mar 2009 17:58:42 +0100Hi, My name is Jeff.
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And I kinda built this place. Just thought I would introduce myself. Not too many people here right now, but hopefully that will change!Jeff AlexanderTue, 21 Oct 2008 19:58:19 +0100
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