{"id":1778,"date":"2010-02-11T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:11:35","slug":"metropolis-prognostications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/metropolis-prognostications\/","title":{"rendered":"metropolis prognostications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1779\" title=\"new-orleans-ssb\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/new-orleans-ssb.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/new-orleans-ssb.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/new-orleans-ssb-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Storm surge barriers under construction near New Orleans; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archithings.com\/shaw-makes-history-with-major-milestone-at-worlds-largest-surge-barrier-in-new-orleans\/2009\/10\/25\">image source<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In their January issue, <em>Metropolis <\/em>asks architects and designers to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\/story\/20100113\/whats-next-the-1-5-10-issue\">predictions, inspirations, and prognostications<\/a> for the coming decade. \u00a0 It&#8217;ll be no great surprise to readers of <em>mammoth<\/em> that I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by the predictions grouped under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\/story\/20100113\/whats-next-landscape-architecture\">&#8220;landscape architecture&#8221;<\/a>, which involve reconstructed storm barriers in Louisiana, an &#8220;embedded infrastructure for carbon storage within the existing physical and social land uses of the city&#8221;, and &#8216;soft coastal engineering&#8217;, but there are numerous other fascinating prognostications, including self-healing concrete; bridges which, via &#8220;fiber-optic nervous systems&#8221;, monitor their own stress levels and temperature differentials to predict failure; mining landfills for &#8220;their valuable metals and minerals&#8221;; nursebots (&#8220;a GPS system with memory in a walker&#8221;); the replacement of garbage trucks and garbage cans with garbage shoots and tubes &#8212; an &#8220;Envac system for waste management&#8221;; and &#8220;the evolution of the big box into urban spaces&#8221; (or, Wal-Mart in a Manhattan basement).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Storm surge barriers under construction near New Orleans; image source] In their January issue, Metropolis asks architects and designers to offer predictions, inspirations, and prognostications for the coming decade. \u00a0 It&#8217;ll be no great surprise to readers of mammoth that I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by the predictions grouped under &#8220;landscape architecture&#8221;, which involve reconstructed storm barriers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,397],"tags":[848,851,856,844],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-the-expanded-field","tag-infrastructure","tag-landscape-architecture","tag-readings","tag-urbanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}