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February 16, 2012 – 6:00 am

munitions landscape

[The Radford Army Ammunitions Plant on the New River, in southwest Virginia.] FASLANYC takes us on a tour of particularly bizarre militarized landscape typology — the World War II-era munitions plant, beginning with the Radford Army Ammunitions Plant in southwestern Virgina. Digging into the archives at the Historic American Landscapes Survey, Davis excavates the fascinating […]

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May 28, 2010 – 5:00 am

“a state of perpetual fracture”

[“The faults induced by military speleogenesis will lead to gradual yet certain failure of the jet noise barrier.”] Nick Sowers (Soundscrapers) has recently posted a series at the Archinect school blog project exploring his recently-completed thesis project from a succession of disciplinary perspectives, which he titles the Archaeologist (who introduces the project), the Forensic Engineer, […]

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November 24, 2009 – 4:18 pm

the new dutch water defense line

There’s nothing particularly original about the observation that the Dutch have a peculiar national relationship to their landscape (and, in particular, its hydrology), but that peculiarity produces endlessly fascinating oddities and, apparently, endless mammoth posts on Dutch hydrology.  As lewism noted on one such post, Bulwarks and Flux: …the whole of Dutch landscape and history […]

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October 26, 2009 – 1:53 pm

claiming involuntary parks

[Taiga at the glaciated and lake-spotted meeting of Finland and Russia] The European Green Belt is an initiative to develop a pan-European conservation system as “an ecological network that runs from the Barents to the Black Sea”. Picking out the Cold War line of division between East and West, the initiative aims to thicken and […]

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June 22, 2009 – 5:49 pm

sea-based x-band radar

The Sea-Based X-Band Radar, recently deployed to the coast of Hawaii in response to the threat of North Korean ballistic missiles.  National defense as exquisite functionalist sculpture, or the American military’s response to the Statoil advertisements. [see also this older post at eatingbark on the eglin fps-85 radar building]

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