{"id":218,"date":"2009-05-08T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-05-08T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T20:54:48","slug":"insert-and-instigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/insert-and-instigate\/","title":{"rendered":"insert and instigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple exceptionally fresh projects slipped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asla.org\/2009awards\/index.html\">ASLA awards<\/a> this year (which were just released yesterday), both by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmgsite.com\/\">CMG Landscape Architecture<\/a> of San Francisco:<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption-wide\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebargroup.org\/\">&#8220;Panhandle Bandshell&#8221;<\/a>, a temporary structure, composed entirely of recycled materials, erected in cooperation with the design collective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebargroup.org\/\">Rebar<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-221\" title=\"cmg-2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cmg-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cmg-2.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cmg-2-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption-wide\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asla.org\/2009awards\/330.html\">&#8220;The Crack Garden&#8221;<\/a>, which Pruned has an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/crack-gardens.html\">post<\/a> on, under construction.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"cmg-1\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cmg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cmg-1.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cmg-1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Pruned <a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/crack-gardens.html\">notes<\/a>, CMG&#8217;s work seems out of place in the ASLA awards, situated amongst &#8220;projects whose budgets seem crass in an age of credit crunch and foreclosure&#8221;,\u00a0 a &#8220;cabal of slick hyper-modernity and conspicuous designery&#8221;.  Both the Crack Garden and the Bandshell are undeniably fresh and creative, perfect examples of the sort of user-generated urbanism (backyards, after all, are as much a part of the urban ecosystem as sidewalks) aimed at generating a diverse (social or botanical) ecology which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebargroup.org\/\">Rebar<\/a> outlined in their too-brief five minutes at the recent Ecological Urbanism conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple exceptionally fresh projects slipped into the ASLA awards this year (which were just released yesterday), both by CMG Landscape Architecture of San Francisco: &#8220;Panhandle Bandshell&#8221;, a temporary structure, composed entirely of recycled materials, erected in cooperation with the design collective Rebar. &#8220;The Crack Garden&#8221;, which Pruned has an excellent post on, under construction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[44,19,851,79,844],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-architecture","tag-asla","tag-ecological-urbanism-at-gsd","tag-landscape-architecture","tag-rebar","tag-urbanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}