metaphor and landscape
faslanyc has a good piece on the weakness of metaphor as a grounding literary device for landscape architecture. The post is in reaction to Andrew Blum’s “Metaphor Remediation”, recently run…
the atlantic on new orleans
Wayne Curtis in The Atlantic on architecture and the reconstruction of New Orleans:
Four years after Katrina, the rebuilding of New Orleans is not proceeding the way anyone envisioned, nor with…
vanished speedways
[Local speedway in Lancaster County, South Carolina; this is the speedway that sang me to sleep on Saturday nights for roughly twelve of the first fifteen years of my life]
In the comments…
extraterrestial infrastructure
“A Space Program for the Rest of Us”, a brief history of the American space program to date and an interesting case for why the next step should be the development of an open and robust space…
an assortment of links relevant to previous conversations
1. On the relationship between sports and urbanism, see Pruned on urban golf. Which led me to think that soccer might similarly be deployed with a similar future of appropriation,…
as diagram traced on exported landscape
[photograph by Maximilian Haidacher, via polar inertia]
The few of you who may have followed my rather undirected ramblings at eatingbark before the launch of mammoth will be aware…
ownership culture
[“Subdivision: Sunshine Acres”, by Ross Racine.]
Thomas Sugrue, in a Wall Street Journal article on the American culture of home ownership from August:
Every generation has offered…
toxic waters
The New York Times is running a fantastic series on “worsening pollution in America’s waters and regulators’ response.”
our collective spatial memory, modeled
From the description of the above video at PopSci:
Using nearly half a million Flickr photos of Rome, Venice, and the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik, a team of…
