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Visionary Architecture

January 25, 2014by Sara 3 Comments

Louis Khan, City Tower, 1958 “When the imagination surpasses the limits permitted by the institution of culture, one speaks of poesie, utopia. When critical thought attains and surpasses its limit […]

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Narrative Atlas

October 24, 2013by Sara 1 Comment

Dennis Wood, Jack-O’-Lanterns I been reading two books “MapHead” by Ken Jennings and “Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas” by Denis Wood. According to Jennings he has been a […]

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The Contradiction of Consumerism

May 3, 2013by Sara 5 Comments

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 […]

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Artists, City, Urbanism

Vancouver Matters

April 27, 2013by Sara 4 Comments

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 […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Diagram Mapping

February 3, 2013by Sara 7 Comments

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 […]

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Artists, City, Fiction, Mapping, Urbanism

The flow of things

December 6, 2012by Sara 8 Comments

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 […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure, Mapping, Urbanism

Unusual Encounters

November 16, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

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 […]

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Artists, City, Urbanism

Reconfiguring Suburbia

September 26, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

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 […]

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Architects, Architecture, City, Urbanism

Aerotropolis

September 14, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

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, […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Uncategorized, Urbanism

Rolling Masterplan

August 14, 2012by Sara 4 Comments

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 […]

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Architects, Cedric Price, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt

August 3, 2012by Sara 7 Comments

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 […]

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Architects, Architecture, Cedric Price, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Visionary Architecture

Public Art and Urban Interventions

July 21, 2012by Sara 10 Comments

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 […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Taking Measure

July 12, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

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 […]

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Architects, Collage, Mapping, Urbanism

Streetlamps

June 10, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

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 […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Reconfigurations of the Urban Grid

May 14, 2012by Sara 3 Comments

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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Artists, City, Mapping, Urbanism

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