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water urbanism
water is a pervasive condition and yet the supply of potable water is limited. human occupation has always necessarily been related to a close proximity to water sources. this proximity has shaped traditional communities in ways that are sometimes surprising, … Continue reading
New Beginnings
Airports Airports are key moments where the local is erased in favor of the global. It is the distillation of a space dominated by logos, by machinery, by artifice, by substitution. The artifacts of the airport experience are those of … Continue reading
charting the urban future – part 2
a few moments along the way to a storyline for the near future 1. http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/28/energy-generating-pavement/ 2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/11/1853217 When the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) decided to invest in alternative energy sources, it only had to look to its … Continue reading
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charting the urban future – part 1
these are an attempt to jumpstart a visual catalog of items that i believe have a relevance to the immediate urban future. some are repeats from previous posts, others are completely cribbed from other journals and blogs i find fascinating. … Continue reading
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the future around us
http://www.livinglightseoul.net/05.htm the living http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news-archive/library/images/balloons1.jpg cj lim http://efgh-ny.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arandalasch/3192718680/ aranda/lasch http://emergentarchitecture.com/projects.php?id=25 emergent architecture
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reflexive utopias
with an abundance of blind utopian visions littering the history of humanity, the idea that ideals can be realized is often viewed with considerable skepticism. sadly the role of utopia is typically much like that of developing visions of the … Continue reading
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dispossessed utopias
the concept of utopia is intrinsic to the study of the future. the impossibility of utopia, though is mired in the intrinsically large gulf between our ability to conceive, logically, a perfect world, and to actualize the reality that would … Continue reading
cardinal sin
video stills from Lifecycle by Brian Bowman i’ve committed the cardinal sin of blogging and not updated my blog for a week. so instead of whining about my workload i’ll share a video from a good friend, brian levi bowman. … Continue reading
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setting the scene
setting the scene is the intial post for futurescaping Continue reading
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