December 2009
11 posts
climate defense systems →
An article from Sunday’s Washington Post discusses the development of “climate defense systems”, resulting from an increasing interest in not just climate change prevention, but also climate…
free association design →
Via @bldgblog’s link to this great post on the Mexican city of Guanajuato (which I first became fascinated with when the friend who introduced Stephen and I spent part of a summer there with…
Post-WPA Symposium – Open notes →
quarantine theater →
Stephen and I were (of course) delighted to have the opportunity to join BLDGBLOG and Edible Geography (as well as many others) over the weekend for the concluding presentation from the …
Global Food Networks: Countries Buying Countries →
infrastructural urbanism and fracture-critical... →
[Amos Coal Power Plant, from Mitch Epstein’s fantastic series American Power]
Adrian Lahoud has a lengthy post on infrastructure and urbanism at Post-Traumatic Urbanism; the post is…
readings: bloggers →
A few blogs, mostly relatively recently added to the reading list:
Millenium People, which is on an Arctic hiatus, but should return after Christmas; a recommended starting point: the data…
Larsson TED talk →
Magnus Larsson, of BLDGBLOG fame, talking about the same project at TED.
Where the Revolution Began →
a superproject void →
[Aerial image of the Hoover Dam Bypass under construction; I’d love to give credit for the image to the photographer, but it came to me through a long email chain, lacking any attribution,…
Wet Borders: Microslums and Meanders →
