{"id":1208,"date":"2009-12-09T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2009-12-09T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T14:36:09","slug":"free-association-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/free-association-design\/","title":{"rendered":"free association design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bldgblog\/statuses\/6488245752\">@bldgblog<\/a>&#8216;s link to this <a href=\"http:\/\/freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/18\/all-is-well-in-non-orthagonal-grids\/\">great post<\/a> on the Mexican city of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guanajuato,_Guanajuato\">Guanajuato<\/a> (which I first became fascinated with when the friend who introduced Stephen and I spent part of a summer there with an architecture studio), I see that Brett Milligan, whose project &#8220;Inundating the Border&#8221; <em>mammoth <\/em>briefly touched on in <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/its-prettiness-and-romance-will-then-be-gone\/\">an earlier post<\/a> on Texas hydrology, is writing an excellent blog entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com\/\">Free Association Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like posting has been fairly infrequent until recently, but the topics are fantastic.\u00a0 Besides the post on Guanajuato, which, as <em>BLDGBLOG <\/em>says, covers &#8220;<span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">nonorthogonal grids, partially underground infrastructure, off-kilter houses, and more&#8221;, <\/span><\/span>recent posts include <a href=\"http:\/\/freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/21\/urban-grids-2-subterranean-vertical\/\">a follow-up<\/a> on the intricate lace of hand-dug mining tunnels which honeycomb the hills outside Guanajuato, <a href=\"http:\/\/freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/01\/landscape-infrastructures-symposium\/\">a brief review<\/a> of the <em>Landscape Infrastructures<\/em> DVD (which neither Stephen or I have <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/landscape-infrastructures-posthumous-live-blog\/\">finished yet<\/a>), and <a href=\"http:\/\/freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/27\/human-habitat-maps-of-anthropogenic-biomes\/\">global maps of anthropogenic biomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via @bldgblog&#8216;s link to this great post on the Mexican city of Guanajuato (which I first became fascinated with when the friend who introduced Stephen and I spent part of a summer there with an architecture studio), I see that Brett Milligan, whose project &#8220;Inundating the Border&#8221; mammoth briefly touched on in an earlier post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[268,848,847,856,844],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-guanajuato","tag-infrastructure","tag-blogs","tag-readings","tag-urbanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}