Secret / Closed Cities - Google Groups
8 weeks ago by rbhlms
via Nicola Twilley (https://twitter.com/#!/nicolatwilley/status/183922373446205441) -- would love to check out that exhibition.
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landscape
militarism
urbanism
cold-war
russia
soviet-russia
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8 weeks ago by rbhlms
BLDGBLOG: The Shape of War
september 2011 by rbhlms
(quoted from earlier interview)<br />
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War shapes and designs our society. The landscapes that I look at are created by warfare and conflict. This is particularly true in Europe. I went to the city of Cologne, for instance, and the city of Cologne was built by Charlemagne—but Cologne has the shape that it does today because of the abilities and non-abilities of a Lancaster Bomber. It comes from what a Lancaster can do and what a Lancaster can't do. What it cannot do is fly deep into Germany in the middle of the day and pinpoint-bomb a ball bearing factory. What it can do is fly to places that are quite near to England, that are five miles across, on a bend in the river, under moonlight, and then hit them with large amounts of H.E.. And if you do that, you end up with a city that looks like Cologne—the way the city's shaped.
military
war
urbanism
technology
materialism
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War shapes and designs our society. The landscapes that I look at are created by warfare and conflict. This is particularly true in Europe. I went to the city of Cologne, for instance, and the city of Cologne was built by Charlemagne—but Cologne has the shape that it does today because of the abilities and non-abilities of a Lancaster Bomber. It comes from what a Lancaster can do and what a Lancaster can't do. What it cannot do is fly deep into Germany in the middle of the day and pinpoint-bomb a ball bearing factory. What it can do is fly to places that are quite near to England, that are five miles across, on a bend in the river, under moonlight, and then hit them with large amounts of H.E.. And if you do that, you end up with a city that looks like Cologne—the way the city's shaped.
september 2011 by rbhlms
The Polis in Post-Modernity (II): Scale and the City — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
august 2011 by rbhlms
...any attempt to return to the “simpler times,” to the polis, where one’s relationships were inherently political—that is, related to the life of the community—is impossible. So we have lost the polis. And, despite the good (and there has been good along with goods, though it’s too soon, I think, to start loading the scales) that has come with these changes, we should mourn the polis. In one form, it was the foundation of Western thought; in another, it was the foundation of American political society.<br />
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Whatever we create going forward, it will not be—because it cannot be—a polis. This, and the changes in scale, technology, and mobility, between 1776 and 2011, lead me to a further conclusion: The “Founding Vision,” whether it was, whatever it was, however noble it may or may not have been, can never be wholly relevant to the American future.
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politics
place
community
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Whatever we create going forward, it will not be—because it cannot be—a polis. This, and the changes in scale, technology, and mobility, between 1776 and 2011, lead me to a further conclusion: The “Founding Vision,” whether it was, whatever it was, however noble it may or may not have been, can never be wholly relevant to the American future.
august 2011 by rbhlms
Flickr: Urban Markup Language
june 2011 by rbhlms
(via Shannon_Mattern)<br />
Goes with this: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/start.html?pg=9
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urbanism
photography
urban-markup-language
invisible-city
mammoth
@eatingbark
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Goes with this: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/start.html?pg=9
june 2011 by rbhlms
Hands Off Our Houses - NYTimes.com
june 2011 by rbhlms
Airoots criticize the "$300 house". Infrastructure (clean water, stormwater, wastewater, transportation) and expertise ("Micro Home Solutions") over pre-fab. (Via http://www.witoldrybczynski.com/uncategorized/how-the-other-half-builds/)
architecture
infrastructure
mumbai
informal-housing
infrastructural-urbanism
urbanism
india
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june 2011 by rbhlms
The Mystery of the Canadian Whiskey Fungus | Magazine
june 2011 by rbhlms
“It’s an urban extremophile,” Scott says. Typically we don’t think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room. Fungi live in both. Now Scott sees urban extremophile fungi everywhere. The black smudges along roadsides and on old buildings that look like soot, he says, are usually some hardy fungus that tolerates (or loves) diesel fumes, smog, and slightly acidic rain. Baudoinia might have been a bit player on prehuman Earth. But then we came along and built distilleries, Baudoinia’s own bespoke microparadises.
science
biology
fungi
urbanism
gowanus-canal
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june 2011 by rbhlms
BBC News - Google to amend Rio maps over Brazil favela complaints
april 2011 by rbhlms
Excellent example of the potency of maps (and digital representation) in shaping perceptions of the city. (Constructing the city.)
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mapping
VT:visualization-and-representation
favela
brazil
geography
urbanism
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april 2011 by rbhlms
Project - Chicago Institute for Land Generation - Architizer - Empowering Architecture: architects, buildings, interior design, materials, jobs, competitions, design schools
april 2011 by rbhlms
Also to appear in Bracket 2<br />
Also, PLOTS (http://www.think-space.org/gallery/?appNo=0000701576) -- perhaps better item.
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land
urbanism
speculative-architecture
mammoth
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Also, PLOTS (http://www.think-space.org/gallery/?appNo=0000701576) -- perhaps better item.
april 2011 by rbhlms
Extrastatecraft
march 2011 by rbhlms
For instance, how do organisations like the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) or McKinsey determine management protocols? How do construction networks, more than the singular creations of architects and urbanists, disseminate materials and processes that determine how the world is calibrated? How do markets and financial instruments create templates that shape space?
architecture
research
keller-esaterling
urbanism
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march 2011 by rbhlms
Underground Caverns Keep Things Cold, Safe… and Secret | Magazine | Wired.com
march 2011 by rbhlms
the federal government’s Noah’s Ark
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underground
caverns
landscape
urbanism
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march 2011 by rbhlms
Deserted City « mixit[é]
february 2011 by rbhlms
via @dpr-barcelona
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urbanism
architecture
infrastructure
fog
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february 2011 by rbhlms
China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people - Telegraph
january 2011 by rbhlms
who says the mega-project is dead?
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infrastructure
china
urbanism
urban-planning
@eatingbark
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january 2011 by rbhlms
Control the Masses: Andrés Duany - Planning, Urban Development - Architect Magazine
january 2011 by rbhlms
Credit to Duany for appearing relatively reasonable here.
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urbanism
urban-planning
andres-duany
mammoth
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january 2011 by rbhlms
P-I_google_earth01.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x700 pixels)
january 2011 by rbhlms
The fact that the older housing stock -- with its new urbanist-approved form -- has fared little better than the modernist superblocks is at least a decent visual counterargument to the assumed primacy of urban form in determining futures.
pruitt-igoe
st-louis
modernism
urbanism
urban-renewal
new-urbanism
mammoth
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january 2011 by rbhlms
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
january 2011 by rbhlms
I suppose it is interesting how utterly unsurprising the conclusions are. Though the superlinear vs. sublinear thing is at least novel.<br />
http://www.blanz.net/roadshow03.html
urbanism
science
mammoth
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http://www.blanz.net/roadshow03.html
january 2011 by rbhlms
***feld72***URBAN STRATEGIES
january 2011 by rbhlms
particularly "urban strategies".
urbanism
landscape
public-space
unsolicited-architecture
mammoth
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january 2011 by rbhlms
The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » The Other Side of Detroit
january 2011 by rbhlms
Short but excellent piece.
detroit
urbanism
ruins
data
demographics
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january 2011 by rbhlms
Adam Nathaniel Mayer: Style and the Pretense of 'Parametric' Architecture
december 2010 by rbhlms
It’s a nice sound bite for sure, but contradictory in its execution. Certainly, especially in the Western world, we are living in an evolving ‘post-Fordist network society’. This does not mean we need to make all of our new buildings look like blobs, though. If anything, ‘network society’ is unsympathetic to architectural form and renders it meaningless. What does it matter if we live on the 75th floor of a crystalline skyscraper in Dubai or a cookie-cutter suburban home in Atlanta, as long as we are digitally connected? <br />
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Strangely enough, while the physical form of buildings has become ever more meaningless in our network society, the tools which we use to connect have taken on a more prominent role on fulfilling our design needs. Think of the stylish mobile phones, the iPads- these gadgets satisfy the design niche of representing current social zeitgeist better than a piece of architecture ever could.
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parametricism
urbanism
style
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Strangely enough, while the physical form of buildings has become ever more meaningless in our network society, the tools which we use to connect have taken on a more prominent role on fulfilling our design needs. Think of the stylish mobile phones, the iPads- these gadgets satisfy the design niche of representing current social zeitgeist better than a piece of architecture ever could.
december 2010 by rbhlms
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