The Contradiction of Consumerism
Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers pictured at the scene after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25, 2013. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty) With the […]
Category Archives: Urbanism
Vancouver Matters
I just finished reading Vancouver Matters a book in which artists, architects, and urban planners presents the city of Vancouver through a variety of uncharacteristic urban elements as a “counterpoint to the […]
Diagram Mapping
World map by Ranulf Higden, British Library Recently, in my ongoing researching of maps, I discovered that before the 15th century, the word “map” did not exist. Instead, what today […]
The flow of things
Sara Graham, StreetFinder: Vancouver, 2012, LJT40 Print mounted on dibond, 32 x 48″ I recently started reading Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manuel Lima. Although the book was recently […]
Unusual Encounters
Julian Charriere, Some Pigeons are More Equal than Others, 2012 When I came across this post on iGNANT I was immediately intrigued (and maybe a bit concerned for the welfare of […]
Reconfiguring Suburbia
I have finished reading Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape, an exhibition catalogue published by the Walker Arts Center in 2008 for the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape. I realise […]
Aerotropolis
Peter Cook had great insight about using the airport as a model to build a city. I thought this was a great idea to start thinking about our city, its structure, […]
Rolling Masterplan
I wrote about Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt not too long ago and this morning I saw this on iGNANT and had to post it right away. The Rolling Masterplan was proposed […]
Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt
I now take the West Coast Express home from work. I have a short commute and rather enjoy the quiet, relaxing travel from Vancouver. I am on the train for […]
Public Art and Urban Interventions
Pierre Vivant, Traffic Tree, 2008 Pierre Vivant, Traffic Tree, 2008 The definition of what public art is has slowly evolved over the last two decades from large-scale sculptures to urban interventions […]
Taking Measure
The Exposed City written by Nadia Amoroso, which I have written about a little here introduced me James Corner, landscape architect and Principal at James Corner Field Operations. I feel like I should […]
Why are so many cities afraid of colour?
I am finally starting to get settled. I have almost unpacked, changed my mobile number and have had my connection to the Internet made. I am now living across the […]
Streetlamps
I have been walking around my hood for one last farewell and I stumbled upon a street lamp that I never noticed before near a busy intersection close to where […]
Tunnels
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for […]
Reconfigurations of the Urban Grid
Rento van Drunen, Gridcollages Rento van Drunen’s Gridcollages on pytr75’s blog put my mind back to Albert Pope’s book, Ladders which was published in 1996. This book was very influential on […]
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