Posts Tagged ‘urban planning’
The Exhibit, Toward the Sentient City, curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York, has an admirable online presence. The exhibit investigates how ubiquitous computing and ambient technology have come to influence architecture and urban design. Shepard writes:
“We are now on the cusp of a similarly fundamental reconfiguration of physical space, one in which a vast and mostly invisible layer of technology is being embedded into the world around us. Using a wide range of complex technologies and devices — from microprocessors and electronic identification tags to sensors and networked information systems — buildings and cities are being transformed, imbued with the capacity to sense, record, process, transmit, and respond to information and activity taking place within and around them.” Read more here.
Tags: Architectural League of New York, cities, exhibit, technology, urban design, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on November 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
TED’s A Greener Future? page includes 53 videos of lectures delivered by leading scholars, designers and activists engaged in the debate over the environment and climate change. Al Gore, Cameron Sinclair, Norman Foster, and others discuss a wide range of topics including global mass extinctions, sustainable food culture and urban design.
Tags: climate change, food culture, green building, sustainability, sustainable design, TED, urban, urban design, urban planning, urban renewal, urbanism, video
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 3, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
Before Henry Hudson landed on the shores of Manhattan island, the area’s biodiversity rivaled Yosemite and Yellowstone National Park. The Mannahatta Project seeks to understand what New York looked like before it became a city. To recreate Manhattan circa 1600, the project “used GIS software to layer spatial datasets (i.e. maps), to derive maps of topography, streams, and eventually species and ecological community types.” While the project explores the transition from an undeveloped to an urban landscape, it hope to inspire people to consider ways of living that are “compatible with wildlife and wild places and that will sustain people and planet Earth for the next 400 years.”
Tags: ecology, enviornmentalism, landscape, Manhattan, New York, NYC, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on October 29, 2009 in GPS, maps | No Comments »
Places is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and its impact on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. On October 5th, Places will assume a fully web-based, open-access format. Places online will publish peer-reviewed scholarship as well as topical commentary, observations, reviews, and visual portfolios that focus on “public spaces in the service of shared and egalitarian ideals of society” and explore “the highest standards of public responsibility and design.”
Tags: academic journal, architectural history, architecture, design history, Design Observer Group, landscape architecture, Places, sustainability, urban design, urban planning, urbanism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 5, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, landscape | No Comments »
Memphis Union Station, Courtesy of the Infrastructurist
Check out the post “Demolished! 11 Beautiful Train Stations That Fell To The Wrecking Ball (And The Crappy Stuff Built In Their Place)” in The Infrastructurist: America Under Construction. The contrast between the now demolished neo-classical buildings and the contemporary government offices, highways, and parking lots is incredibly striking.
Tags: abandoned architecture, train stations, transportation, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on June 29, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
GeoCommons is a free, web-based service that allows you to create, customize and share interactive maps using your own data. Upload KML files, spreadsheets or utilize the vast amount of datasets already available on the website. The service is easy to use for anyone unfamiliar with more complicated mapping techniques.
Tags: freeware, maps, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on April 30, 2009 in GPS, landscape, maps | 1 Comment »
Dr. Sandra Rosenbloom, professor of Planning at the University of Arizona and member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Transportation Research Board, will present “Equity and Access in Transportation System Planning: It’s More Than You Think It Is.” She will explain how government programs and policies compromise access to transportation and will explore case studies she has designed, which analyze social inequality and activity patterns.
April 10, 2008
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Location: Texas Union, Sinclair Suite 3.128
Tags: City Forum, lecture, transportation, urban planning, UTSOA
Posted by Joan Winter on April 10, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
Outline and Index Map of Atlas of New York City : Manhattan Island (1897). Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
The NYPL has included 2,000 maps from from the New York City Fire Insurance Atlases (1852-1923) in the Google Earth index. These highly detailed maps illustrate individual building structures, lot dimensions, neighborhood zoning and the region’s topography. By incorporating historic collections with Google Earth’s platform, the NYPL provides the curious with a contextual structure for browsing and comparing cartographic documents. Once you’ve downloaded the map index, you can launch Google Earth and chart the development of the built environment in NYC.
For more detailed information about the New York City Fire Insurance Atlases and to download the Google Earth index, visit the NYPL’s website.
Tags: Google Earth, maps, New York, NYPL, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on April 2, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, maps | No Comments »
Race, space, and politics will be the dominant themes at the University of Pennsylvania’s 2009 Unspoken Borders:The Ecologies of Inequality student design conference. The conference will highlight socio-economic and environmental concerns, focusing on key issues of infrastructure and design process. Registration is currently open for the conference to be held April 3rd and 4th.
Tags: architecture, ecology, economics, fine arts, historic preservation, landscape architecture, Penn, sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Unspoken Borders, urban planning, urbanism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 25, 2009 in architecture, art, landscape | No Comments »
James Rouse, TIME Magazine, 1981
Professor Jordan Yin at Western Michigan University has compiled a list of images of city planners, planning theorists and pioneering politicians accessible via Google-hosted LIFE photo archives.
Tags: digital images, LIFE photo archive, photography, urban planners, urban planning
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on February 23, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, photography | No Comments »
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