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KA-Connect 2012: The story of landscape urbanism
Landscape urbanism is a mode of thinking about the design and function of cities that places landscape architecture as one of the first steps in urban development, rather than the last. The story behind this website, in a talk at KA-Connect 2012
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2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards
Among the recent winners of the 2012 Cooper Hewitt Design Awards are Stoss Landscape Urbanism and Richard Saul Wurman in the Landscape Architecture and Lifetime Achievement categories.
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letter from the editors
We work in a profession where precision and accuracy are critical, and yet we imagine and propose things never before done. The better we can document and convey our intentions, the better they can be understood and implemented. We tell stories about what we do and why we do it. How well we tell these stories matters.
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Hunters Point – Candlestick Point
The City of San Francisco and a developer have proposed a 700-acre development for Candlestick Point / Hunters Point Shipyard, the last large expansion of the city.
Current Issue
Tomorrow’s cities will need to perform better than today’s. To meet this challenge, designers (and their clients) have assembled a host of goals for urban projects—from encouraging smart transportation to protecting wildlife, from remediating toxic sites to building diverse neighborhoods—and increasingly, landscape projects are sold on such claims rather than their formal or aesthetic value alone.
Featured Project
Currently under construction, Brooklyn Bridge Park will eventually encompass approximately eighty-five acres and 1.3 miles of the previously industrial waterfront directly across from downtown Manhattan.
Categories: Bridge, Infrastructure, Post-Industrial, Recreation, Redevelopment, Water, Waterfront
From the blog:
Among the recent winners of the 2012 Cooper Hewitt Design Awards are Stoss Landscape Urbanism and Richard Saul Wurman in the Landscape Architecture and Lifetime Achievement categories.
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