Archive for April, 2008
Pattern Recognition 1
I keep playing with different methods of sharing pattern photography on this site. I have added a gallery of pattern images I started collecting before starting this blog, which can be accessed through the link in the header. You will also notice a random pattern displayed at the top of the right sidebar […]
Reflecting on ‘Agents of Urbanism’
This morning, while reading on the subway, I came across a quote that speaks to the ocean in which I am swimming, figuratively that is.
Theory is not written for entertainment, yet when it is a successful and succinct explanation of the inner workings of a formerly confusing phenomenon, it is by its nature absorbing to […]
Sustainable Architecture and Sustainable Cities
It wasn’t necessarily my intention to immediately continue the discussion of sustainable cities and how we define them, because I wanted to spend some time on my other interests. However, considering this issue has some urgency for many people, I keep finding great articles. Today, I came across two fantastic pieces that I […]
Ecocity World Summit 2008
It is always nice when current events and discourse compliment the content of one’s blog. Today is one of those days.
Tonight an environmental photographer, Gary Braasch, opens the Ecocity World Summit with his presentation “World View of Global Warming and How Cities Can Save the Earth.” The main conference begins Wednesday, April 23rd […]
Sustainable City Race, Part 3: Dongtan
The final part in this series will take us to Dongtan, on Chongming Island outside of Shanghai in China. This eco-city is of a vastly different scale than Masdar, which we examined in part 2.
For their motivation, China has similar reasons to Masdar for investing in sustainable cities. They lay claim to 16 […]
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